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.
      
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   2. To produce a hernia in.
      
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Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. i.
   To suffer a breach or disruption.
   
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Rupture \Rup"ture\ (?; 135), n. [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 broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the
      rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
      --Arbuthnot.
      
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            Hatch from the egg, that soon,
            Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed
            Their callow young.                   --Milton.
      
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   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.
      
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            He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a
            rupture with his family.              --E. Everett.
      
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   3. (Med.) Hernia. See {Hernia}.
      
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   4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden
      manner than by explosion. See {Explosion}.
      
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   {Modulus of rupture}. (Engin.) See under {Modulus}.
      
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   Syn: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution.
        See {Fracture}.
        
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Hernia \Her"ni*a\, n.; pl. E. {Hernias}, L. {Herniae}. [L.]
   (Med.)
   A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has
   escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some
   natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as,
   hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of
   the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also {rupture}.
   
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   {Strangulated hernia}, a hernia so tightly compressed in some
      part of the channel through which it has been protruded as
      to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the
      protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia,
      but is more common in the latter.
      
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