I.a pricking, puncture: “dolores laterum, qui punctionem afferant,” a pricking pain, stitch, Plin. 34, 15, 44, § 151.—In plur.: “punctiones sentire,” Cels. 8, 9, 2; Plin. 25, 13, 94, § 150; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 6.
punctĭo , ōnis, f. id., in medicine,