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- noun Plural form of
fissure . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fissure .
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Examples
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Cracks in your heel are known as fissures and, if not properly cared for, can cause pain standing and walking in shoes or sandals.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Five Foot Tips to Keep Your Feet Healthy for 2012 Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2012
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Cracks in your heel are known as fissures and, if not properly cared for, can cause pain standing and walking in shoes or sandals.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Five Foot Tips to Keep Your Feet Healthy for 2012 Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2012
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Cracks in your heel are known as fissures and, if not properly cared for, can cause pain standing and walking in shoes or sandals.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Five Foot Tips to Keep Your Feet Healthy for 2012 Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2012
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Cracks in your heel are known as fissures and, if not properly cared for, can cause pain standing and walking in shoes or sandals.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Five Foot Tips to Keep Your Feet Healthy for 2012 Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2012
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The hierarchal status of the Tudor princesses merely allowed them to exploit certain fissures — in particular, the resources of the household — to their fullest potential.
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Palestine, from its hilly character, abounds in fissures and caves, affording shelter to the persecuted, as the fifty hid by Obadiah (1Ki 18: 4, 13) and Elijah (1Ki 19: 8, 13); and
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Snakes often hid themselves in fissures in a wall.
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More commonly, however, the oil is collected in fissures in the rocks, at various depths below the surface.
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The surfaces of the hemispheres are moulded into a number of irregular eminences, named gyri or convolutions, and separated by furrows termed fissures and sulci.
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The ice was seven or eight feet thick, and some of the fissures were a yard wide at the surface, and tapered to a wedge shape at the bottom.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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