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ῥῆγμα

ῥῆγμα, a breakage, fracture

ῥῆγ-μα, ατος, τό, (ῥήγνυμι)
  • breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, Hp. Aër. 4, cf. D. 18.198, Dsc. 3.74; with στρέμμα (a strain), D. 2.21, 11.14.
      • 2 laceration, rupture, Gal. 10.160, 18(2).882, cf. Arist. HA 635a4.
      • 3 rent, tear, in clothes, Archipp. 38.
      • 4 cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς Arist. HA 628b29; chink, ἐν τοίχοις Plb. 13.6.8; breach in a dyke, PLond. 1.131r. 45, 60 (i A.D.).
    • II lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων Hp. Flat. 11, cf. Gal. 1.238, 10.232; esp. of lung, Hp. Loc.Hom. 14, Morb. 1.20:hence ῥηγματίας

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