rupt-, -rupting, -ruption

1. A breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
2. A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition).
3. In ecology, a sudden increase in an animal population.

A rarely used term for "rupture of the tympanic membrane (eardrum)".

Etymology: from Middle English, "practice, custom, routine"; from Old French rote (French route), "road, way, path"; from Vulgar Latin (via) rupta; literally "a broken way", feminine past participle of rumpere, "to break".

1. Mob, rabble.
2. To put to flight, the original meaning of the verb rout was "to break the ranks of a troop".
3. Etymology: from Middle French route, "host, troop, crowd"; from Old French rote, from Vulgar Latin rupta, "a dispersed group"; literally, "a broken group", from Latin rumpere, "to break".

Etymology: from Middle English, from Old French route, "road, way, path"; from Vulgar Latin rupta (via) from rumpere, "to break".

Etymology: French, from Middle French route, "road, way, path".

1. The process or instance of breaking open or bursting.
2. The state of being broken open.
3. A breaking off of friendly, or peaceful, relations; such as, between countries or individuals.
4. In pathology, a hernia; especially, of the groin or intestines.
5. A tear in an organ or a tissue; such as, a rupture of an appendix or a ligament rupture.

A painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae which occurs most often in the lumbar region of the back.

Etymology: from Middle French route, "way"; from Vulgar Latin rupta (via), literally "a broken way".