contrafissure

English

Etymology

contra- +‎ fissure

Noun

contrafissure (plural contrafissures)

(medicine) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
Synonym: counterfissure
- 1815, James Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art:
  When the professor's body was opened the next day , the cranium was very entire , having neither fissure nor contrafissure

References

“contrafissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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