- fissura
- 1. SYN: fissure. 2. In neuroanatomy, a particularly deep sulcus of the surface of the brain or spinal cord. [L. fr. findo, to cleave]- f. antitragohelicina [TA] a fissure in the auricular cartilage between the cauda helicis and the antitragus. SYN: antitragohelicine fissure.- f. calcarina SYN: calcarine sulcus.- fissurae cerebelli [TA] SYN: cerebellar fissures, under fissure.- f. choroidea [TA] SYN: optic fissure.- f. collateralis SYN: collateral sulcus.- f. dentata SYN: hippocampal sulcus.- f. hippocampi SYN: hippocampal sulcus.- f. horizontalis [TA] SYN: horizontal fissure [TA] of cerebellum.- f. intersemilunaris [TA] SYN: ansoparamedian fissure.- f. intraculminalis [TA] SYN: intraculminate fissure.- f. ligamenti teretis hepatis [TA] SYN: fissure for ligamentum teres.- f. ligamenti venosi [TA] SYN: fissure for ligamentum venosum.- f. parietooccipitalis SYN: parietooccipital sulcus.- f. petrosquamosa [TA] SYN: petrosquamous fissure.- f. petrotympanica [TA] SYN: petrotympanic fissure.- f. posterolateralis [TA] SYN: posterolateral fissure.- f. precentralis [TA] SYN: precentral fissure.- f. preculminalis [TA] SYN: preculminate fissure.- f. prepyramidalis [TA] SYN: prepyramidal fissure.- f. prima cerebelli [TA] SYN: primary fissure of cerebellum.- f. pterygoidea SYN: pterygoid notch.- f. pterygomaxillaris [TA] SYN: pterygomaxillary fissure.- f. pterygopalatina SYN: pterygomaxillary fissure.- f. pudendi SYN: pudendal cleft.- f. secunda cerebelli [TA] SYN: secondary fissure [TA] of cerebellum.- f. sphenopetrosa [TA] SYN: petrosphenoidal fissure.- f. transversa cerebelli SYN: transverse fissure of cerebellum.- f. transversa cerebri [TA] SYN: transverse cerebral fissure.- f. tympanomastoidea [TA] SYN: tympanomastoid fissure.- f. tympanosquamosa [TA] SYN: tympanosquamous fissure.
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fis·su·ra (fis-uґrə) gen. and pl. fissuґrae [L., from findere to split] fissure: a cleft or groove, especially a deep fold in the cerebral cortex that involves its entire thickness. Cf. sulcus.
Medical dictionary. 2011.