Does Anyone Know What a Developmental Fissure Is?

I think I would've asked the doctor, when he told me, to please explain what it was.

However, a fissure is a crack. Is it a crack in her bone? A split in a tendon or muscle? Don't know...and we can't answer that. The doctor who looked at her x-ray is the only one who can explain what he meant.

see the link below - If I am understanding what the situation is that the doctor was consulted on, basically it is a significant crack in the thickened skin of the foot, can potentially get infected.

http://whymyfoothurts.com/conditions/fissures.html

hope that helps! T.

If you dont' fully understand something when you are at the doctors office, you need to ask questions until you do. I would assume it was not fractured, but you need to watch it and be careful.

Probably a crack at a spot that will naturally grow together in time (with childhood development).

You know that not all the bones are completely formed in a baby - like the skull which is in peices in a newborn, but eventually fuse together into one singular skull over a few years.

Good lesson going forward to always ask the doc when there's something you don't understand.
In the mean time call the doc's office or nurse line and ask!

I googled developmental fissure in bone and was sent to this site. http://www.wordnik.com/words/bone%20fissure

Definitions
Wiktionary
n. a groove or depression in a bone; a sulcus.

Put that together with developmental and I suggest it means a groove or depression in a bone made during the bone's development.

Other sites when I googled fissure talked about dental fissures meaning a groove in the enamel of a tooth.

I would call to be sure what the doctor was talking about.