arrosionn.

a1614 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes (1616) sig. F3^v The nose in the purchase of the Pocks doth suffer a kind of lesion and hurt by the arrosion of its gristle.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. xxvi. 658 Thus the putrefaction, the cause of the arrosion [L. arrosionis causa], may be stayed.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 160 This arrosion of the nailes..the property of men inraged with choler.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. I Arrosion, a gnawing.

1836 Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 646 The crystallisation may have been formed by infiltration through infinitely minute invisible fissures; the deposit being afterwards destroyed by arrosion, or other causes.

1878 Chicago Med. Times Oct. 331 Hemorrhage from the bowels often occurs, which is from arrosions of the blood vessels near ulcers or from rupture of overloaded capillaries.

1946 Acta Oto-laryngologica 34 250 The most usual cause of aneurysm in this region would appear to be traumatic injuries (gunshot wounds) or arrosion through abscesses or the like.

1982 M. Cowan et al. tr. D. Zachar Soil Erosion i. 17 The first two factors (plants and animals) do little more than nibble at the soil and substrate hence arrosion (Latin arrodere—to nibble).

2014 Thoracic Surg. Clinics 24 107/2 Anastomotic granulations, stenosis, or anastomotic dehiscence as well as bleeding from vessel arrosion.