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fis·sure

(fĭsh′ər)

1. A long narrow opening; a crack or cleft.

2. The process of splitting or separating; division.

3. A separation into subgroups or factions; a schism.

4. Anatomy A normal groove or furrow, as in the liver or brain, that divides an organ into lobes or parts.

5. Medicine A break in the skin, usually where it joins a mucous membrane, producing a cracklike sore or ulcer.

intr. & tr.v. fis·sured, fis·sur·ing, fis·sures

To form a crack or cleft or cause a crack or cleft in.

[Middle English, cut, from Old French, from Latin fissūra, from fissus, split; see fissi-.]

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fissured

(ˈfɪʃəd)

adj

1. having deep lines or cracks

2. divided through disagreement

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schrundig

fissured

[ˈfɪʃəd] ADJ → agrietado

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fissured

adj → rissig; (= with deep fissures) → zerklüftet

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San Carlos, Chiloe -- Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina -- Ride to Cucao -- Impenetrable Forests -- Valdivia Indians -- Earthquake -- Concepcion -- Great Earthquake -- Rocks fissured -- Appearance of the former Towns -- The Sea Black and Boiling -- Direction of the Vibrations -- Stones twisted round -- Great Wave -- Permanent Elevation of the Land -- Area of Volcanic Phenomena -- The connection between the Elevatory and Eruptive Forces -- Cause of Earthquakes -- Slow Elevation of Mountain-chains

The ground in many parts was fissured in north and south lines, perhaps caused by the yielding of the parallel and steep sides of this narrow island.

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Then came crests and ravines, in a sort of desert which preceded the Ugogo country; and lower down were yellow plains, parched and fissured by the intense heat, and, here and there, bestrewn with saline plants and brambly thickets.