A painful linear tear at the margin of the anus. It appears as a crack or slit in the mucous membrane of the anus and is very painful and difficult to heal.
    

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Clinical observations on diseases of the rectum : on polypoid growths in the rectum, and their occasional association with anal fissure / by James R. Lane.

Thése apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia em [blank] de junho de 1864, para ser sustentada / pelo C.G. Dennehy.

Fissure of the anus and fistula in ano / by Lewis H. Adler.

Minor anal conditions / James P.S. Thomson.

The management of fissure-in-ano / A.G. Parks.

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Fissure in Ano

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Clinical observations on diseases of the rectum : on polypoid growths in the rectum, and their occasional association with anal fissure / by James R. Lane.

Thése apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia em [blank] de junho de 1864, para ser sustentada / pelo C.G. Dennehy.

Fissure of the anus and fistula in ano / by Lewis H. Adler.

Minor anal conditions / James P.S. Thomson.

The management of fissure-in-ano / A.G. Parks.