The Only Use of
fissure
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
- His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.
p. 18..4fissures = long narrow creases
Definition:
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(fissure) a long, narrow crack; or its creation -- especially in the ground or in rock
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation