ῥῆγ-μα, ατος, τό,
(ῥήγνυμι) breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 4,compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.198, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.74] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with στρέμμα (a strain), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.21, 11.14. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 laceration, rupture, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.160, 18(2).882, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 635a4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 rent, tear, in clothes, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 628b29 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; chink, ἐν τοίχοις [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 13.6.8 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; breach in a dyke, [[ “PLond.” 1.131r. 45, 60 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 11, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.238, 10.232; especially oflung, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 14, “Morb.” 1.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:hence ῥηγμᾰτίας, ου, ὁ, one who has such a rupture, [[[prev. author] “Aër.” 4, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.146, 4.10; τοὺς ἐκ βηχὸς ῥηγματίας “Hippiatrica” 22 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; but ῥηγματίας πλεύμονος perhaps = pleurisy, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥηγμᾰτώδης, ες, [[ [prev. author] “Epid.” 7.26. ] Refs]