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Puncture
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puncture
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Puncture, punctured or puncturing may refer to:
a
flat tyre
in British English (US English "flat tire" or just "flat")
a
penetrating wound
caused by pointy objects as nails or needles
Lumbar puncture
, also known as a spinal tap
Puncture (band)
, an English punk band
Puncture
(film)
, a 2011 American film starring Chris Evans
Puncture (topology)
, the removal of a finite set of points from a manifold
Punctured neighbourhood
, in general topology
in coding theory, a
punctured code
, in which some of the bits of the data stream have been removed
Pneumothorax
, also known as punctured lung