When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rupture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupture

    Achilles tendon rupture; Rupture of membranes, a "water breaking" event of pregnancy Premature rupture of membranes, when the amniotic sac ruptures more than an hour before the onset of labor; Ruptured spleen; Testicular rupture, a rip or tear in the connective tissue covering of the testes; Breast implant#Implant rupture, a rupture of breast ...

  3. Opposite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite

    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  4. Epistemological rupture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_rupture

    Epistemological rupture (or epistemological break) is a notion introduced in 1938 by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, [1] [2] and later used by Louis Althusser. [ 3 ] Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological obstacles"—or unthought/ unconscious structures that were immanent within the realm of the ...

  5. Avulsion injury - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avulsion_injury

    A hippopotamus with an avulsion injury to its face. In medicine, an avulsion is an injury in which a body structure is torn off by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off"). [1]

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse_(semantics)

    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  8. Hernia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia

    A hernia (pl.: hernias or herniae, from Latin, meaning 'rupture') is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides. [1] The term is also used for the normal development of the intestinal tract , referring to the retraction of the intestine from the extra-embryonal navel ...

  9. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_slurs

    Term Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Campbellite: United States: Followers of Church of Christ: Followers of the Church of Christ, from American Restoration Movement leaders Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, the latter being one of two key people considered the founders of the movement.