Commissural :: Commissural (a.) Of or pertaining to a commissure.
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc..
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc..
Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..
Crissum :: Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts..
Dissuade :: Dissuade (v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
Dissuade :: Dissuade (v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose..
Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..
Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Fissurella :: Fissurella (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet..