פְּצִיעָה f. (פָּצַע) 1) splitting, cracking. Sabb. 75ᵃ פ׳ בכלל דישה opening the purple snail (squeezing the fluid out) is an act coming under the category of threshing. —2) an open wound.—Pl. פְּצִיעוֹת. Snh. 37ᵇ; Tanḥ. B’resh. 9, a. e. פ׳ פ׳ several wounds, contrad. to חבורות. Y. Kil. IX, end, 32ᵈ היו בראשו פ׳ (not בראשי פצעיות) if one has several wounds on his head.