What is another word for fissure?
691 synonyms found
What is a cerebral fissure?
What is a tectonic fissure?
What is a posterior lateral fissure?
Pronunciation:
[ fˈɪʃə], [ fˈɪʃə], [ f_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə]
A fissure can be described as a narrow opening or crack in a surface. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe a fissure, including crevice, gap, chink, rift, and split. Each of these synonyms can be used to convey the idea of a separation or division within a larger structure. A crevice can be a small or narrow opening, while a gap is a wider opening or space. A chink is often used to describe a small or narrow opening that allows light to shine through, while a rift is a larger or more serious division. Split is often used to describe a complete or total separation between two surfaces or structures.
Related words: fissure in a patient's cane, cerebral fissure, anterior lateral fissure, posterior lateral fissure, medial fissure, tectonic fissure
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Synonyms for Fissure:
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n.
• abyss • aperture- eye .
- alienation ,
- difference ,
- disagreement ,
- discontinuity ,
- discord ,
- disharmony ,
- dissension ,
- disunity ,
- division ,
- falling-out ,
- quarrel ,
- secession ,
- separation ,
- split ,
- variance ,
- withdrawal .
- dis section ,
- dis sections ,
- dis-section ,
- dis-sections ,
- inter section ,
- inter sections ,
- inter-section ,
- inter-sections .
- Disarticulation ,
- amputation ,
- bisection ,
- cleavage ,
- detachment ,
- disassembly ,
- disassociation ,
- disconnection ,
- disengagement ,
- disintegration ,
- dissection ,
- dissociation ,
- divorce ,
- part ,
- partition ,
- segregation ,
- slice .
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v.
• halve • open- busted in ,
- busting in ,
- busts in ,
- came apart ,
- comes apart ,
- dis close ,
- dis closed ,
- dis closes ,
- dis closing ,
- dis play ,
- dis played ,
- dis playing ,
- dis plays ,
- dis-close ,
- dis-closed ,
- dis-closes ,
- dis-closing ,
- dis-play ,
- dis-played ,
- dis-playing ,
- dis-plays ,
- gapping ,
- kicked in ,
- kicking in ,
- kicks in ,
- re lease ,
- re leases ,
- re veals ,
- re-lease ,
- re-leased ,
- re-leases ,
- re-veal ,
- re-veals ,
- threw wide ,
- throwing wide ,
- throws wide ,
- un bar ,
- un barred ,
- un barring ,
- un bars ,
- un block ,
- un blocked ,
- un blocking ,
- un blocks ,
- un bolt ,
- un bolted ,
- un bolting ,
- un bolts ,
- un clad ,
- un close ,
- un closed ,
- un closes ,
- un closing ,
- un clothe ,
- un clothed ,
- un clothes ,
- un clothing ,
- un cork ,
- un corked ,
- un corking ,
- un corks ,
- un cover ,
- un covered ,
- un covering ,
- un covers ,
- un did ,
- un does ,
- un doing ,
- un done ,
- un fasten ,
- un fastened ,
- un fastening ,
- un fastens ,
- un fold ,
- un folded ,
- un folding ,
- un folds ,
- un furled ,
- un furling ,
- un latch ,
- un latched ,
- un latches ,
- un latching ,
- un lock ,
- un locked ,
- un locking ,
- un locks ,
- un roll ,
- un rolled ,
- un rolling ,
- un rolls ,
- un seal ,
- un sealed ,
- un sealing ,
- un seals ,
- un shut ,
- un shuts ,
- un shutting ,
- un stop ,
- un stopped ,
- un stopping ,
- un stops ,
- un tied ,
- un tying ,
- un wrap ,
- un wrapped ,
- un wrapping ,
- un wraps ,
- un-bar ,
- un-barred ,
- un-barring ,
- un-bars ,
- un-block ,
- un-blocked ,
- un-blocking ,
- un-blocks ,
- un-bolt ,
- un-bolted ,
- un-bolting ,
- un-bolts ,
- un-clad ,
- un-close ,
- un-closed ,
- un-closes ,
- un-closing ,
- un-clothe ,
- un-clothed ,
- un-clothes ,
- un-clothing ,
- un-cork ,
- un-corked ,
- un-corking ,
- un-corks ,
- un-cover ,
- un-covering ,
- un-covers ,
- un-did ,
- un-does ,
- un-doing ,
- un-fasten ,
- un-fastened ,
- un-fastening ,
- un-fastens ,
- un-fold ,
- un-folded ,
- un-folding ,
- un-folds ,
- un-furled ,
- un-furling ,
- un-latch ,
- un-latched ,
- un-latches ,
- un-latching ,
- un-lock ,
- un-locked ,
- un-locking ,
- un-locks ,
- un-roll ,
- un-rolled ,
- un-rolling ,
- un-rolls ,
- un-seal ,
- un-sealed ,
- un-sealing ,
- un-seals ,
- un-shut ,
- un-shuts ,
- un-shutting ,
- un-stop ,
- un-stopped ,
- un-stopping ,
- un-stops ,
- un-tied ,
- un-tying ,
- un-wrap ,
- un-wrapped ,
- un-wrapping ,
- un-wraps ,
- uncloses ,
- unclosing ,
- unshuts ,
- unshutted ,
- unshutting ,
- unstops .
Other synonyms:
- cutting .
- channel .
Other relevant words:
- open .
- line .
- Arbor vitae ,
- Blow-hole ,
- Clough ,
- Coulee ,
- Couloir ,
- Dispart ,
- Dura Mater ,
- Folia ,
- Fumarole ,
- Ghyll ,
- Glial Cells ,
- Globus Pallidus ,
- Interspace ,
- Kloof ,
- Ope ,
- Pia Mater ,
- Sulcation ,
- Wady ,
- abysm ,
- abyss ,
- adhere ,
- afflict ,
- air-hole ,
- alligator ,
- amputate ,
- aperture ,
- arachnoid ,
- archipallium ,
- arroyo ,
- assemble ,
- between brain ,
- blighter ,
- bloke ,
- blowhole ,
- box canyon ,
- brain stem ,
- break open ,
- break-up ,
- breakage ,
- breaking ,
- breaking up ,
- broach ,
- broken ,
- burst ,
- bursting ,
- bust ,
- butcher ,
- caesura ,
- canyon ,
- carve ,
- cavity ,
- cerebellar hemispheres ,
- cerebellum ,
- cerebral cortex ,
- cerebrospinal fluid ,
- cerebrum ,
- cessation ,
- chap ,
- check ,
- chimney ,
- chip ,
- chop ,
- cleft ,
- cleuch ,
- cling ,
- cloven ,
- cohere ,
- col ,
- come apart ,
- come unstuck ,
- convolution ,
- corpus callosum ,
- corpus striatum ,
- corrugation ,
- crack ,
- cracked ,
- cracking ,
- crackle ,
- cranny ,
- crater ,
- craze ,
- crease ,
- creek ,
- crevice ,
- crow's feet ,
- cuss ,
- cut away ,
- cut in two ,
- cwm ,
- defile ,
- dell ,
- depression ,
- detach ,
- dichotomize ,
- diencephalon ,
- dike ,
- disconnect ,
- disintegrate ,
- disjoin ,
- disjunction ,
- dismember ,
- disrupt ,
- disruption ,
- dissever ,
- dissociate ,
- disturb ,
- disunite ,
- divaricate ,
- donga ,
- draw ,
- duct ,
- endbrain ,
- excavation ,
- excise ,
- exfoliate ,
- fall to pieces ,
- fatigue crack ,
- fault ,
- fella ,
- feller ,
- fellow ,
- fission ,
- flaw ,
- fling ,
- flue ,
- flute ,
- fly open ,
- forebrain ,
- fornix ,
- fosse ,
- fracture ,
- frontal lobe ,
- funnel ,
- furrow ,
- gap ,
- gape ,
- gash ,
- gent ,
- gill ,
- give away ,
- give way ,
- go ,
- gore ,
- gorge ,
- gray matter ,
- grey matter ,
- groove ,
- gulch ,
- gulf ,
- gulley ,
- gutter ,
- gyrus ,
- ha-ha ,
- hack ,
- help ,
- hernia ,
- hew ,
- hiatus ,
- hilar ,
- hindbrain ,
- hippocampus ,
- hole ,
- hollow ,
- hollow out ,
- hypothalamus ,
- incise ,
- incised ,
- inlet ,
- interim ,
- intermission ,
- interregnum ,
- interruption ,
- interstice ,
- interval ,
- jigsaw ,
- joint ,
- knap ,
- lacerate ,
- laceration ,
- lacuna ,
- lad ,
- lance ,
- lay open ,
- leak ,
- lenticular nucleus ,
- letup ,
- limbic lobe ,
- little brain ,
- lobe ,
- lode ,
- lull ,
- mantle ,
- medulla oblongata ,
- meninges ,
- mesencephalon ,
- mesh ,
- metencephalon ,
- midbrain ,
- moat ,
- mouth ,
- myelencephalon ,
- neopallium ,
- notch ,
- nullah ,
- occipital lobe ,
- offer ,
- open up ,
- opening ,
- optic chiasm ,
- orifice ,
- outlet ,
- pallium ,
- pare ,
- parietal lobe ,
- pass ,
- passage ,
- pause ,
- perforation ,
- pineal body ,
- pipe ,
- pit ,
- pituitary body ,
- plane ,
- polarize ,
- pons ,
- prune ,
- pull ,
- puncture ,
- quip ,
- ravine ,
- rhombencephalon ,
- rime ,
- rive ,
- rut ,
- sally ,
- saw ,
- scale ,
- scission ,
- scissor ,
- scissure ,
- score ,
- scratch ,
- seam ,
- separate ,
- separator ,
- severance ,
- severing ,
- sew ,
- shatter ,
- shot ,
- slash ,
- slot ,
- smite ,
- snap ,
- snip ,
- space ,
- spin ,
- spiracle ,
- splinter ,
- split up ,
- splitting ,
- spread ,
- spread out ,
- spring ,
- spring a leak ,
- start ,
- stitch ,
- subthalamus ,
- sulcus ,
- sunder ,
- suspension ,
- tap ,
- telencephalon ,
- temporal lobe ,
- thalamus ,
- throw open ,
- tornado ,
- toss ,
- track ,
- trench ,
- trough ,
- twirl ,
- unhinge ,
- valley ,
- vent ,
- ventricle ,
- vermis ,
- void ,
- wadi ,
- wedge ,
- whirl ,
- white matter ,
- whittle ,
- wisecrack ,
- witty remark ,
- wrinkle .
- Holing ,
- Slotted ,
- Slotting ,
- Unclose ,
- Unclosed ,
- Unlatch ,
- Unlatching ,
- Unshut ,
- Unstop ,
- bust in ,
- coming apart ,
- fissured ,
- fissuring ,
- gapped ,
- holed ,
- throw wide ,
- unbar ,
- unbarred ,
- unbarring ,
- unbars ,
- unbolt ,
- unbolted ,
- unbolting ,
- unbolts ,
- uncork ,
- uncorked ,
- uncorking ,
- uncorks ,
- unfurled ,
- unfurls ,
- unlatched ,
- unlatches ,
- unlock ,
- unstopped ,
- unstopping .
- By-place ,
- Foramina ,
- Herniae ,
- Hernias ,
- Kerf ,
- RIMAS ,
- Scarification ,
- Short circuit ,
- break ,
- byplace ,
- carvings ,
- cloughs ,
- cloves ,
- coulees ,
- coverts ,
- cut ,
- eyelet ,
- eyelets ,
- fissure ,
- foramen ,
- fragmentation ,
- gaps ,
- herniation ,
- impression ,
- imprint ,
- incision ,
- kerfs ,
- keyhole ,
- keyholes ,
- leakage ,
- leakages ,
- leakings ,
- mutilation ,
- mutilations ,
- nature ,
- out goings ,
- outgoings ,
- parting of the ways ,
- peephole ,
- percolation ,
- pinhole ,
- pinholes ,
- preterition ,
- rabbet ,
- rabbets ,
- rent ,
- rima ,
- rimation ,
- rupture ,
- scarifications ,
- short circuits ,
- slit ,
- strife ,
- tatter ,
- tatters ,
- tear ,
- thing ,
- vallecula ,
- window .
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How to use "Fissure" in context?
A fissure is a crack or opening in the earth's surface.
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