[ad. L. laceratiōn-em, n. of action f. lacerāre to LACERATE. Cf. F. lacération.] The action or process of lacerating; an instance of this.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 5/2. Throughe laceratione of some vayne or arterye.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 344. The orifice … doth … inlarge it selfe without feare of laceration or tearing.

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a. 1631.  Donne, in Select. (1840), 38. Forbearing all lacerations … and woundings of one another.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. v. 88. The nitrous … exhalations … force out their way, not only with the breaking of the cloud, but the laceration of the ayre about it.

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1731.  Arbuthnot, Aliments (1735), 167. The Effects are, Extension of the great Vessels, Compression of the lesser, and Lacerations upon small Causes.

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1783.  P. Pott, Chirurg., Wks. II. 26. The difference between dilatation and laceration of the peritoneum.

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1846.  Landor, Imag. Convers., Wks. II. 236/1. The scars and lacerations on your arms.

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1863.  H. Spencer, First Princ., I. v. § 32 (1875), 115. No mental revolution can be accomplished without more or less of laceration.

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