PERTU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin pertusus, pertundo.] 1. The act of punching, piercing or thrusting through with a pointed instrument. The manner of opening a vein in Hippocrates's time, was by stabbing or pertusion 2. A little hole made by punching; a perforation.
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