Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, a fissure or fracture in the cranium caused by a blow, but on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
fissure orfracture on the side opposite to that which received theblow , or at some distance from it.
Etymologies
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contra- + fissure
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