fissuring

The name may be derived from the word Kuhlen (referring to the extensive fissuring of this region).

The bark is brown, with stringy vertical fissuring.

The surface of the cap can develop concentric rings of cracks with age, and the species epithet rivulosa refers to this fissuring.

It is sometimes the cause of abnormal fissuring of the angular (corner) sections of the lips (angular stomatitis).

The local deformation of the Eurasian plate created by the subduction has encouraged the fissuring of the crust, leading to the appearance of volcanic phenomena.

By leaving early, for example, he heads off the possibility of a revolt on the left of his party and its slow fissuring, which was already happening, with him in power.

Signs and symptoms include soreness, erythema (redness), and fissuring of the angles of the mouth, with edema seen intraorally on the commisures.

A Study Documenting Reduction of Tempering Time by Fissuring and Its Effect on Milling.

"They do not recall any fissuring, subsidence, or the like which might be consistent with the event, they appear simply to believe that God's creation and transformation of the world goes on continuously."

Others are more rarely discussed but undoubtedly more important for the United States, like the possible fissuring of Canada because of conflicts over the rights of regional and ethnic populations.

One of the external signs of the fissuring of the seemingly watertight compartmentalized colonial society is the deep sense of malaise and maladjustment which is wearing out its white inhabitants.

This is a fine ideain the abstract, but given current events and the fissuring of the world along so many theo-sectarian lines, I wish we could forgo the sermon and just strike up the band.

The bark is usually very distinctive, unlike other junipers, hard, dark gray-brown, cracked into small square plates superficially resembling Alligator skin; it is however sometimes like other junipers, with stringy vertical fissuring.

Whatever the physiological stimulus to platelet aggregation and thrombus formation it appears that it is the fissuring of an atheromatous plague often with extrusion of plaque lipid contents which triggers thrombus formation (Bouch & Montgomery, 1970).

They reported that discs which showed in an MRI a decrease in signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images (Modic type 1) exhibited disruption and fissuring of the end plates.

Breast eczema (also known as "Nipple eczema") may affect the nipples, areolae, or surrounding skin, with eczema of the nipples being of the moist type with oozing and crusting, in which painful fissuring is frequently seen, especially in nursing mothers.

Fissuring of an atherosclerotic plaque would also expose collagen fibres, and the adhering platelets could release agents such as thromboxane A 2 and ADP, which would rapidly lead to adhesion and aggregation of more platelets and growth of the thrombus.