Definition of Fissural

1. a. Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.

Definition of Fissural

1. Adjective. Pertaining to a fissure or fissures. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fissural

1. pertaining to a long narrow opening [adj]

Medical Definition of Fissural

1. Relating to a fissure. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissural

fissura petrosquamosa
fissura petrotympanica
fissura posterolateralis
fissura prima cerebelli
fissura pterygoidea
fissura pterygomaxillaris
fissura pterygopalatina
fissura secunda cerebelli
fissura sphenopetrosa
fissura transversa cerebelli
fissura transversa cerebri
fissura tympanomastoidea
fissura tympanosquamosa
fissurae cerebelli
fissural (current term)
fissural cyst
fissuration
fissurations
fissure
fissure bur
fissure caries
fissure for ligamentum teres
fissure in ano
fissure of Rolando
fissure of Sylvius
fissure of ligamentum venosum
fissure of round ligament of liver
fissure of venous ligament
fissure sealant

Literary usage of Fissural

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"the histological anatomy and morphology of the basal ganglia especially of the thalamus; (5) the fissural and gyral morphology of the cerebellum; ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"the histological anatomy and morphology of the basal ganglia especially of the thalamus; (5) the fissural and gyral morphology of the cerebellum; ..."

3. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The spinal arteries give origin to two sets of branches, namely, the fissural or centrifugal, and, the centripetal arteries. Both sets are end-arteries and ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1874)
"After a pretty careful study of the specimens and works at my command, I feel justified in asserting that we cannot as yet characterize the fissural pattern ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1874)
"After a pretty careful study of the specimens and works at my command, I feel justified in asserting that we cannot as yet characterize the fissural pattern ..."

6. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"The fissural Pattern.—The fissures of the cat, dog and fox can be ... and peculiar to them, we might be able to define the fissural pattern of the species. ..."

7. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"The fissural type (fig. 6) on both aspects of the cerebral hemisphere is that of the period of the transitory fissures, With reference to those on the outer ..."

8. Manual of Human and Comparative Histology by Salomon Stricker, Henry Power (1872)
"... that enter the large veins of the cortex; and it usually happens that from each of the fasciculi of urinary tubules bounding a fissural space a venous ..."

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