Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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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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