Injury or Poisoning
rupture Audio
rup·ture [ ruhp-cher ]
Subclass of:
Wounds and Injuries
Etymology:
Latin ruptura = a break
Definitions related to rupture:
  • A tear or break in an organ or tissue. Tissue that protrudes through the rupture is known as a hernia.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Forcible or traumatic tear or break of an organ or other soft part of the body.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Forcible tearing or disruption of tissue.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Traumatic or spontaneous breakage of tissue.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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