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German
Etymology
Zwerchfell (“diaphragm”) + Riss (“rupture”)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Zwerch‧fell‧riss
Noun
Zwerchfellriss m (strong, genitive Zwerchfellrisses, plural Zwerchfellrisse)
- (medicine) a rupture of the diaphragm
- (humor) a fictional disease arising from too much laughing
Von seinen Erzählungen habe ich einen Zwerchfellriss bekommen- I laughed like mad at his tales
- (literally, “I got a diaphragm rupture from his tales”)
Inflection
Declension of Zwerchfellriss
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