A.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.HA628b29; 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 ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων” Hp.Flat.11, cf. Gal.1.238, 10.232; esp. oflung, Hp.Loc.Hom.14, Morb.1.20:hence ῥηγμα^τίας , ου, ὁ, one who has such a rupture, Id.Aër.4, Dsc.3.146, 4.10; “τοὺς ἐκ βηχὸς ῥηγματίας” Hippiatr.22; but ῥηγματίας πλεύμονος perh. = pleurisy, Hp.Morb.2.53; ῥηγμα^τώδης , ες, Id.Epid.7.26.
