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Rent :: Rent (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church..

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

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

Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..

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

Broken-bellied :: Broken-bellied (a.) Having a ruptured belly.

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..

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..

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

Rupture :: Rupture (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion..

Ruptured :: Ruptured (imp. & p. p.) of Ruptur.

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.

Rupture :: Rupture (n.) Hernia. See Hernia.

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..

Sore :: Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil..

Aneurism :: Aneurism (n.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery..

Perineorrhaphy :: Perineorrhaphy (n.) The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.

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..

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

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