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

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

Scrotocele :: Scrotocele (n.) A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.

Burstwort :: Burstwort (n.) A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

Ruption :: Ruption (n.) A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

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

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

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..

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Diapedesis :: Diapedesis (n.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels..

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

Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel..

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..

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

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..

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