contrafissure

English

Etymology

From contra- +‎ fissure.

Noun

contrafissure (plural contrafissures)

1. (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.