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Avulsion
Avulsion A*vul"sion, n. [L. avulsio.]
1. A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
The avulsion of two polished superficies. --Locke.
2. A fragment torn off. --J. Barlow.
3. (Law) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate
of one man to that of another by an inundation or a
current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by
which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and
joined to the estate of another. The property in the part
thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original
owner. --Wharton. Burrill.
Meaning of Avulsion from wikipedia
- In medicine, an
avulsion is an
injury in
which a body
structure is torn off by
either trauma or
surgery (from the
Latin avellere,
meaning "to tear off")...
- Look up
avulsion or
avulse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Avulsion in
general refers to a
tearing away. Specifically, it can
refer to:
Avulsion fracture...
- An
avulsion fracture is a bone
fracture which occurs when a
fragment of bone
tears away from the main m**** of bone as a
result of
physical trauma. This...
-
fluvial geomorphology,
avulsion is the
rapid abandonment of a
river channel and the
formation of a new
river channel.
Avulsions occur as a
result of channel...
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Dental avulsion is the
complete displacement of a
tooth from its
socket in
alveolar bone
owing to trauma. Normally, a
tooth is
connected to the socket...
- In real
property law,
avulsion refers to a
sudden loss of land,
which results from the
action of water. It
differs from accretion,
which describes a gradual...
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podiatrist is recommended. The
initial surgical approach is
typically a
partial avulsion of the nail
plate known as a
wedge resection or a
complete removal of the...
- movement,
leading to injury.
Biceps femoris tendon avulsion may also be ****ociated with an
avulsion fracture which occurs when a
piece of the bone is pulled...
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Humeral avulsion of the
glenohumeral ligament (HAGL) is
defined as an
avulsion (tearing away) of the
inferior glenohumeral ligament from the
anatomic neck...
- part of the
distal fibula with
avulsion of the
anterior tibiofibular ligament,
opposite to a Tillaux-Chaput
avulsion fracture The
injury was described...
