diffission

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See diffind.

Noun[edit]

diffission (uncountable)

  1. The act of cleaving or splitting.
    • 1899, Transactions of the Louisiana State Medical Society, page 200:
      As we know, there cases of pleuris , even where there is great amount of diffision, with comparatively little dyspnea, and dyspnea is a treacherous symptom to base youself on
    • 1993, Robert Thayer Sataloff, Joseph Sataloff, Occupational Hearing Loss, page 468:
      The amount cleared by back-diffision depends on blood flow.
    • 2019, Michelangelo Mancuso, Thomas Klopstock, Diagnosis and Management of Mitochondrial Disorders, page 309:
      In HIE, WM lesions are characterized by hyperintense foci on T1WI [157] with or without restricthed [sic] diffision [158].
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