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- DictionaryA·vul·sion/əˈvəlSHən/
noun
- 1. the action of pulling or tearing away.
: a sudden cutting off of land by flood, currents, or change in course of a body of water. especially : one separating land from one person's property and joining it to another's. Examples of avulsion in a Sentence.
AVULSION definition: 1. the action of tearing away a part of the body as a result of an accident or surgery 2. the…. Learn more.
noun. a forcible tearing away or separation of a bodily structure or part, either as the result of injury or as an intentional surgical procedure. law the sudden removal of soil from one person's land to that of another, as by flooding.
Apr 30, 2024 · An avulsion is a serious injury where tissues from the body, including three layers of skin, are torn off. You will usually need immediate medical attention for an avulsion. Treatment may include skin grafts or reattaching the skin.
The tearing away of an attached or anchored tissue, as in the avulsion of a muscle from its insertion in bone—e.g., an avulsion fracture in which bone remains attached to the inserted muscle, but loses its attachment to surrounding bone.
AVULSION meaning: 1. the action of tearing away a part of the body as a result of an accident or surgery 2. the…. Learn more.
1. a separation by force. 2. Medicine. the tearing away of a structure or part by surgical traction or by accident. 3. a structure, part, etc. separated by force. 4. the sudden removal of a person's land by the action of water, as by flood or change in the course of a stream, without a resulting loss of ownership.
1. The forcible tearing away of a body part by trauma or surgery. 2. The sudden separation of land from one property, and concomitant connection to another property, as a result of a flood or a shift in the course of a boundary stream.
noun. an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another. see more.
The tearing away of a structure or part by surgical traction or by accident. A structure, part, etc. separated by force. The sudden removal of a person's land by the action of water, as by flood or change in the course of a stream, without a resulting loss of ownership.
