Sentence examples for fissure a from inspiring English sources

Below ground there is a shift, a fissure, a crack that ricochets.

In the same way that an X-ray confirms a bone fissure, a brain scan seems to offer an objective measure of mental activity.

While Dr. Sconzo noted that the photograph seemed to show evidence of an anal fissure — a crack or tear — he conceded that other areas where Mr. Mineo might have been injured were obscured by shadows or hair.

The optic tract fibres make synapses with nerve cells in the respective layers of the lateral geniculate body, and the axons of these third-order nerve cells pass upward to the calcarine fissure (a furrow) in each occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex.

To detect collision between a spatula and a brain fissure, a collision detection method based on the ray-triangle intersection test for a non-convex hull is proposed.

Iceland's Silfra fissure – a crack between continents formed by the constant pulling apart of two tectonic plates – is a geological wonder.

This ideological clash -- first a fissure, then a chasm -- ushered in a vitriolic style of partisan politics.

Hawaiian eruptions often begin as a line of vent eruptions along a fissure vent, a so-called "curtain of fire".

An eruption that began at about midnight local time in a fissure in a lava field ended about 4 hours later, government officials said in a statement.

While they were on a hiking vacation in Switzerland, Katya fell to her death through a fissure in a glacier.

By 9am, I was at my doctor's, who prescribed an antidepressant called Lustral as well as therapy.' Ewart's breakdown - a collapse in social roles, if you like - is one way to break down; another, according to Oliver James, consultant psychologist and author of Britain on the Couch, 'concerns the question of whether there has been a fissure - a break - in your sense of reality'.