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rupture

 

  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rupture  \Rup"ture\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ruptured};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Rupturing}.] 
  1.  To  part  by  violence;  to  break;  to  burst;  as  to  rupture  a 
  blood  vessel. 
 
  2.  To  produce  a  hernia  in 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rupture  \Rup"ture\,  v.  i. 
  To  suffer  a  breach  or  disruption. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rupture  \Rup"ture\  (?;  135),  n.  [L.  ruptura,  fr  rumpere  ruptum 
  to  break:  cf  F.  rupture.  See  {Reave},  and  cf  {Rout}  a 
  defeat.] 
  1.  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. 
  --Arbuthnot. 
 
  Hatch  from  the  egg,  that  soon,  Bursting  with  kindly 
  rupture,  forth  disclosed  Their  callow  young. 
  --Milton. 
 
  2.  Breach  of  peace  or  concord  between  individuals;  open 
  hostility  or  war  between  nations;  interruption  of  friendly 
  relations;  as  the  parties  came  to  a  rupture. 
 
  He  knew  that  policy  would  disincline  Napoleon  from  a 
  rupture  with  his  family.  --E.  Everett. 
 
  3.  (Med.)  Hernia.  See  {Hernia}. 
 
  4.  A  bursting  open  as  of  a  steam  boiler,  in  a  less  sudden 
  manner  than  by  explosion.  See  {Explosion}. 
 
  {Modulus  of  rupture}.  (Engin.)  See  under  {Modulus}. 
 
  Syn:  Fracture;  breach;  break;  burst;  disruption;  dissolution. 
  See  {Fracture}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Hernia  \Her"ni*a\,  n.;  pl  E.  {Hernias},  L.  {Herni[ae]}.  [L.] 
  (Med.) 
  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}. 
 
  {Strangulated  hernia},  a  hernia  so  tightly  compressed  in  some 
  part  of  the  channel  through  which  it  has  been  protruded  as 
  to  arrest  its  circulation,  and  produce  swelling  of  the 
  protruded  part  It  may  occur  in  recent  or  chronic  hernia, 
  but  is  more  common  in  the  latter. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rupture 
  n  1:  state  of  being  torn  or  burst  open 
  2:  a  personal  or  social  separation  (as  between  opposing 
  factions);  "they  hoped  to  avoid  a  break  in  relations" 
  [syn:  {breach},  {break},  {severance},  {rift},  {falling  out}] 
  3:  the  act  of  making  a  sudden  noisy  break 
  v  :  separate  or  cause  to  separate  abruptly;  "The  rope  snapped"; 
  "tear  the  paper"  [syn:  {tear},  {snap},  {bust}]




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