Category:Rupture

Rup"ture, n. Etym: [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 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 desincline napoleon from a rupture with his Family. E. Everett.

3. (med.)

Defn: 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.

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.

Rupture Rup"ture, v. i.

Defn: to suffer a breach or disruption.