ruption

Noun

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
   • The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion - 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and...
   • You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up. - 1859, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 218:
   • Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth. - 1896, Ira C. Barnes, “Two Cases of Simulated Pregnancy”, in The Kansas...
2. A commotion.
   • "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night...
   • But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house. - 1871, Elija Kellogg, “The Sophomores of Radcliffe”, in Our Boys and Girls, volume...
   • The tricks they play on each other are amusing, and a ruption occurs whenever they meet. - 1908, Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914, volume 17, page 9: