apertion
English
Noun
apertion (countable and uncountable, plural apertions)
- (archaic) The act of opening.
- (archaic, often surgery) An opening; an aperture.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
- by ruption or apertion
Related terms
References
- “apertion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.