avulsion
pronunciation
How to pronounce avulsion in British English:
UK [ə'vʌlʃən]
How to pronounce avulsion in American English:
US [ə'vʌlʃən]
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- 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
- a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Clinical experience in emergency treatment of skin avulsion .
- 2. Target : trauma , iatrogenic capsular avulsion .
- 3. Good faith crisis heartless avulsion and erosion our entire economic organism .
- 4. Vujacic said he wasn 't sure when he suffered the avulsion fracture .
- 5. Avulsion fracture of anterosuperior iliac spine .