anal fissure

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A crack or slit in the mucous membrane of the anus.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

But both sides of this American fissure create a life lived less than fully.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, the communion conundrum highlights the first visible fissure in the church of Francis.
The Great Divide Facing Pope Francis That Only Catholics Understand|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.
The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics|Michael Wolraich|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Once opened, this fissure between internal and external splits Hemon apart, giving him, effectively, double lives.
Michael Hainey and Aleksandar Hemon’s Chicago Dreams|Chris Wallace|March 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The tryst causes a professional fissure between Jung and his psychiatrist mentor, Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen.
'The Descendants,' 'The Muppets,' and Other Thanksgiving Movies to See or Skip|Marlow Stern|November 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This prevents the lowest ring from settling while those above remain in position, which would cause an ugly fissure.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
In the description of “The House of Usher,” position emphasizes the barely perceptible fissure.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
The older group commenced with a series of fissure eruptions along the site of the present rift-valley and parallel with it.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
In the time-eaten wall Clara had found a fissure through which she could watch the parley between Thurstane and the Apaches.
Overland|John William De Forest
A little further along the wall was a fissure which was lower and broader than the one she had just quitted.
Overland|John William De Forest