ῥῆγμα

hregma

breakage, fracture

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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De Mundo 2
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Chapter 4 394a7–396a32

395a9
Chapter 5 396a33–397b6

397a32
History of Animals 1
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Book IX 1
Chapter 41 627b23–628b31

628b29

Dictionary (LSJ)

ῥῆγμα, ατος, τό, (ῥήγνυμι) A. breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, Hp. Aër. 4, cf. D. 18.198, Dsc. 3.74; with στρέμμα (a strain), D. 2.21, 11.14. 2. laceration, rupture, Gal. 10.160, 18(2).882, cf. Arist. HA 635a4. 3. rent, tear, in clothes, Archipp. 38. 4. cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς Arist. HA 628b29; chink, ἐν τοίχοις Plb. 13.6.8; breach in a dyke, PLond. 1.131r.45,60 (i A.D.). II. lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων Hp. Flat. 11, cf. Gal. 1.238, 10.232; esp. of lung, Hp. Loc.Hom. 14, Morb. 1.20:hence ῥηγματίας

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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