Usually means: Crack or split opposing another.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrafissure: Wordnik
  2. contrafissure: Wiktionary
  3. Contrafissure: Dictionary.com
  4. Contrafissure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. contrafissure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Contrafissure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. contrafissure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. contrafissure: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Contrafissure: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. contrafissure: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contrafissure)

▸ noun:  (medicine) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

Similar:
counterfissure, fissure, fissuration, effraction, frac, fracture, fent, diffix, sylvian fissure, fistule, more...

Opposite:
syncline, anticline, fold

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Similar:
counterfissure, fissure, fissuration, effraction, frac, fracture, fent, diffix, sylvian fissure, fistule, more...

Opposite:
syncline, anticline, fold



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