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The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.
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Others ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat, excluding but one a day, the latter brood, impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion;
But the proruption of a fame that shall blaze, not flicker, is at hand.
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Continued nervous disturbances in recent secondary syphilis are described by Finger, who in fifty cases found an increase, sometimes a very marked one, in the reflex-excitability of the skin and tendons just before and at the time of the proruption of the exanthema, which was soon followed by a decrease in reflex-excitability, often decreasing to far below normal — in some cases even as far as "o."
It begins with a proruption in many cases in the form of a roseola of large spots or a sparse maculopapular eruption on the trunk and extremities, never on the face. This proruption consists of localized outbreaks.
A protrusion extending from the main body of a country or state.
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The most important area of revenue production, on the other hand, is Shaba Province (formerly Ka-tanga), itself a proruption in the far southeast.
Proruptions were often drawn by colonizers to ensure their access to raw materials or water transport.
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Elsewhere, Afghanistan similarly has a proruption, which was created by the British to prevent Russia from sharing a border with Pakistan, which caused conflicts.
A transformation into a more politically articulated or differentiated form of government.
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The democratic proruption of a society underlines simply the fact that all the members of a particular society are now partners and participants in the act of governance.
In his discussion of the proruption of a political people, he employs the symbol of mystical body for the realm.
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To have created the concepts of eruption and proruption is no mean theoretical achievement in itself, because it allows us to distinguish the component in representation that is almost forgotten wherever the legal symbolism of the following centuries came to predominate in the interpretation of plitical reality.