ruption

plural ruptions

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

   The ruption of teeth in the healthy child is a physiological process without disturbance,

   1914, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 5, page 184

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   The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion

   1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

   You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up.

   1859, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 218

   Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth.

   1896, Ira C. Barnes, “Two Cases of Simulated Pregnancy”, in The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet, volume 17, page 225

2. rareA commotion.

   The tricks they play on each other are amusing, and a ruption occurs whenever they meet.

   1908, Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914, volume 17, page 9

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   "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before.

   1846, Ellen Pickering ·, Cousin Hinton, Or, Friend Or Foe, page 42

   But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house.

   1871, Elija Kellogg, “The Sophomores of Radcliffe”, in Our Boys and Girls, volume 9, number 216, page 453