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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pertusio

The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument;

as,

pertusion

of a vein

[R.]

Arbuthnot.

A punched hole; a perforation.

Bacon.

Noun.

s as z. [L. pertusus, pertundo.]

The act of punching, piercing or thrusting through with a pointed instrument.

The manner of opening a vein in Hippocrates's time, was by stabbing or pertusion.

A little hole made by punching; a perforation.

pertusion ‎(plural pertusions)

The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument.

pertusion of a vein

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A punched hole; a perforation.
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