Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TRA-FIS'SURE
CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH-INGCON-TRA-IN'DI-CANT
CON-TRA-FIS'SURE, n. [contra and fissure.]
In surgery, a fissure or fracture in the cranium, on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. – Coxe. Encyc.
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