ῥῆγμα

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. HA 628b29; 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 ῥηγματίας, 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; ῥηγματώδης, ες, Id. Epid. 7.26.