Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the act of puncturing.
- noun In zoology, the state of being punctured, dotted, or pitted; a set of punctures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of puncturing. See
acupuncture .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
puncturing . - noun A
puncture mark.
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Examples
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Tom had meant to spare him one little puncturation with a lancet, which he had it in his power to administer, but he changed his mind on hearing this, and said:
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If, in such a state of the parts, retention of urine called for puncturation, it is evident that this operation would be performed with greater effect by opening the depending sac through the bowel, than by entering the summit of the bladder above the pubes.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The sacculated bladder considered in reference to sounding, to catheterism, to puncturation, and to lithotomy.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Tom had meant to spare him one little puncturation with a lancet, which he had it in his power to administer, but he changed his mind on hearing this, and said:
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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The original spelling and puncturation have been retained.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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When they mention puncturation, it is commonly called a Gan, or Gan, galan; but sometimes they say Tata'tou, which is almost the same as Ta't_ou_, used to express the same thing at Otaheite and Amsterdam.] [Footnote 22: The letters in Italic, as _oo, ee_, &c. are to be sounded as one.
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