Word Meanings - FISSURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FISSURAL
  Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
• BRAINSICK
  Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• BRAINED
  Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.
• BRAINISH
  Hot-headed; furious. Shak.
• BRAINY
  Having an active or vigorous mind.
• BRAINLESS
  Without understanding; silly; thougthless; witless. -- Brain"less*ness, n.
• FISSURELLA
  A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
• BRAINPAN
  The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• SICK-BRAINED
  Disordered in the brain.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• FAT-BRAINED
  Dull of apprehension.
• 'TWIXT-BRAIN
  The thalamen
• MADBRAINED
  Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• COCK-BRAINED
  Giddy; rash. Milton.
• MIDBRAIN
  The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• CLAY-BRAINED
  Stupid. Shak.
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• CONTRAFISSURE
  A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.