a. rare. [f. L. type *lacerātīvus, f. lacerāre to LACERATE.] Tending to produce laceration.
1666. Harvey, Morb. Angl., xiii. 32. The continual afflux of lacerative humours.
1879–89. J. M. Duncan, Lect. Dis. Women, xviii. (ed. 4), 140. This arises from lacerative injury.
