Definition of Punctures. Meaning of Punctures. Synonyms of Punctures

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Definition of Punctures

Puncture
Puncture Punc"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Punctured; p. pr. & vb. n. Puncturing.] To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.
Puncture
Puncture Punc"ture, n. [L. punctura, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent.] 1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. --Rambler.

Meaning of Punctures from wikipedia

- Look up puncture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Puncture, punctured or puncturing may refer to: a flat tyre in British English (US English "flat tire"...
- Taps that are "positive" have an RBC count of 100/mm3 or more. Lumbar punctures may also be done to inject medications into the cerebrospinal fluid ("intrathecally")...
- single puncture), the cylinder (which is a sphere with two punctures), and the Möbius strip (which is a projective plane with a single puncture). Seifert...
- Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible...
- A suboccipital puncture or cisternal puncture is a diagnostic procedure that can be performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)...
- fixing the elections in 35 constituencies and famously called them the 35 punctures. Nawaz Sharif, the Prime minister at the time, appointed him as the acting...
- topologically equivalent to both the open cylinder S1 × (0,1) and the punctured plane. The area of an annulus is the difference in the areas of the larger...
- Puncture (released under the title Injustice in the United Kingdom) is an independent feature film starring Chris Evans, directed by Adam K****en and Mark...
- In coding theory, puncturing is the process of removing some of the parity bits after encoding with an error-correction code. This has the same effect...
- Post-dural-puncture headache (PDPH) is a complication of puncture of the dura mater (one of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord). The headache...