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A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

sible, or within the limits of elasticity; -- called also Young's modulus. -- Modulus of rupture, the measure of the force necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, a…

The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.

o 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. Woodward.

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 zo

Figuratively, a schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.

A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. "By ruption or apertion." Wiseman.

A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.

A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

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. The dogs came and licked his sores. Luke xvi. 21.

To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle.

umber of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.

a (Med.), emphysema of the lungs, in which the air vesicles are distended and their walls ruptured. -- Vesicular murmur (Med.), the sound, audible on auscultation of the chest, made by the air entering and leaving the air vesicles of the lungs in respiration.

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. Youatt.

animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton. With young, with child; pregnant.