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Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..

Blower :: Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks..

Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..

Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

Leak :: Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..

Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another..

Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..

Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..

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