Literary notes about perforate (AI summary)
The word "perforate" is employed in literature with a wide range of meanings, from clinical precision to evocative metaphor. In medical and biological texts, it describes the process of a tissue or organ being breached—ulcers that suddenly perforate ([1]), bullet wounds that perforate vital organs ([2], [3]), and abscesses that perforate membranes ([4], [5]). It is also used to depict literal penetration in nature and craft; insects perforate wood ([6]), bees perforate bark to extract sap ([7], [8]), and artisans refer to perforate designs in material work ([9], [10]). Beyond the physical, the term may even take on a metaphorical luster, as in the piercing impact of art on the soul ([11]).
- Acute ulcers in anæmic females from fifteen to thirty years of age are those most liable to perforate without previous symptoms.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 2 General Diseases (Continued) and Diseases of the Digestive System - A bullet which would perforate both lungs of a man standing sideways, will most likely go through one lung only if he be standing more full face.
— from Automatic Pistol ShootingTogether with Information on Handling the Duelling Pistol and Revolver by Walter Winans - Abscesses of the liver not infrequently perforate the diaphragm, and are discharged through the lung.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 3 Diseases of the Respiratory, Circulatory, and Hæmatopoietic Systems - Suppuration may perforate the internal carotid or the external maxillary artery and produce sudden fatal hemorrhage.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 2 General Diseases (Continued) and Diseases of the Digestive System - Sometimes these abscesses perforate the pleura and discharge their contents into the pleural cavity, causing pyo-pneumothorax.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 3 Diseases of the Respiratory, Circulatory, and Hæmatopoietic Systems - In 1723, he made observations on the lustre emitted by several kinds of shell-fish, especially the pholades, which perforate wood and stones.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæuswith Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray - They perforate the bark of the branches of the maples with their chisel-like [p 12 ] teeth, and suck the sweet liquid as it slowly oozes out.
— from Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs - The following summer they are hatched, and the young immediately perforate the bark with their beaks and begin to imbibe the sap.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various - This stairway is divided in three places, by square recesses two feet in depth, resembling those which perforate the friezes on each of the stories.
— from Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time. by Brantz Mayer - Pepper and salt each sealed in separate marked envelopes; when needed, perforate paper with big pin and use envelopes as shakers.
— from On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard - He can surpassingly immortalize thy theme, And perforate thy soul, celestial supreme.
— from Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs by Horatio Edward Norfolk
