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Rupture vs Unruptured - What's the difference?

rupture | unruptured |

In medicine terms the difference between rupture and unruptured

is that rupture is a break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle while unruptured is not having ruptured yet.

As a noun rupture

is a burst, split, or break.

As a verb rupture

is to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

As an adjective unruptured is

not having ruptured yet.

rupture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
  • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
  • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
  • (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
  • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
  • See also

    *

    unruptured

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (medicine) Not having ruptured yet
  • an unruptured aneurysm