What is "ruptured"

Usage examples of "ruptured".

It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.

Jesus, Murphy thought, not just a reactor scram but a fucking steam leak--a ruptured main steam line had enough energy to roast everyone in the aft compartment.

The explosion blew apart what had been left of the superstructure, taking with it the masts and antennae as the ship erupted into flames amidships, the fire migrating aft to the fuel tanks, where ruptured fuel lines spewed volatile fuel for the gas turbines into the bilges.

Monday, but from the gross, it looks like the immediate cause of death was a ruptured aortic valve.

It then passed anteriorly under the muscles and integument in the axillary space, along the upper third of the humerus, which was extended beyond the head, the external skin not being ruptured.

Another ceratopsian head smashed against the hull, and this time it ruptured.

By that time the ship had been eaten down below the flight deck and fires from ruptured fuel bunkers had turned it into an inferno from which small, burning, figures could be seen falling.

Cordier gives an instance in which he successfully removed a full-grown child, the result of an ectopic gestation which had ruptured intraligamentally and had been retained nearly two years.

Years of alcohol abuse had caused him to develop esophageal varices, varicose veins in his throat, which had then ruptured.

The Ruptured Whale had shed most of its hyperbolic velocity during the approach.

The injuries were listed more specifically on the emergency room report, and Adam had to reach back into his own college physiology class to remember what all the words meant--open fracture of the left clavicle, fracture of the right olecranon process, anterior dislocation of right shoulder, fracture of ribs eight through ten left side, lacerated liver and spleen, ruptured bladder, crushed metacarpals on right hand, broken nose, laceration of scalp, face, and neck, crushed right ankle.

Seven Zede planets were ruptured, blown apart, sent flying into space in chunks and pieces, all life destroyed, before the Zede warlords capitulated.

Marvelous as it may appear to all sufferers from this distressing affliction, I was discharged from your Institute in thirty days, a well and sound man, and only from memory and the record do I know that I was ever ruptured.

It was the final time because, just as Brewster had feared, the liquid oxygen tanks ruptured and the mixture ignited.

The abdomen was found full of blood, and the spleen and peritoneal covering was ruptured for three inches.