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Rupturewort :: Rupturewort (n.) Same as Burstwort.

Rupture :: Rupture (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring..

Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

Rupturewort :: Rupturewort (n.) A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.

Disruption :: Disruption (n.) The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state..

Extravasation :: Extravasation (n.) The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels..

Split :: Split (v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.

Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..

Ruptured :: Ruptured (a.) Having a rupture, or hernia..

Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To produce a hernia in.

Effusion :: Effusion (n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface..

Hernia :: Hernia (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture..

Laparocele :: Laparocele (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

Rejuvenescence :: Rejuvenescence (n.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoospores, etc..

Crack :: Crack (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense..

Permeate :: Permeate (v. t.) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand..

Rupture :: Rupture (v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.

Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..

Breach :: Breach (n.) A hernia; a rupture.

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