anal fissure

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

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But both sides of this American fissure create a life lived less than fully.
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In fact, the communion conundrum highlights the first visible fissure in the church of Francis.
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Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.
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The tryst causes a professional fissure between Jung and his psychiatrist mentor, Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen.
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This prevents the lowest ring from settling while those above remain in position, which would cause an ugly fissure.
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In the description of “The House of Usher,” position emphasizes the barely perceptible fissure.
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The older group commenced with a series of fissure eruptions along the site of the present rift-valley and parallel with it.
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In the time-eaten wall Clara had found a fissure through which she could watch the parley between Thurstane and the Apaches.
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A little further along the wall was a fissure which was lower and broader than the one she had just quitted.
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