Home › Words › P › pertusionpertusionpertusion means the act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument.EtymologyLatin pertusio.nounThe act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument.e.g.“pertusion of a vein”A punched hole; a perforation.e.g.“many of the more subtle passages , pores , and pertusions appear not in anatomical dissections , because they are shut and latent in dead bodies” — 1623, Francis Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).