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UK
/ˈævʌlʃən/
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NOUN
- a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
- 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
How To Use avulsion In A Sentence
- Radiographs are usually negative; rarely, they show avulsion of the apophysis at the tibial tuberosity.
- With the creek barrier now open and a solid berm built across the avulsion channel, the heavy rains return.
- Avulsion in a coastal area, of course, simply destroys property and moves the boundary, as there is no opposite bank to gain.
- Favre was hurt in Sunday's loss to Green Bay, and an MRI revealed a stress fracture in the ankle as well as an "avulsion" fracture in the heel bone, where a fragment has been torn away by a tendon or ligament. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The examiner must check for associated injuries, including proximal humeral fractures, avulsion of the rotator cuff, and injuries to the adjacent neurovascular structures.
- With our small patient population, it is difficult to reach definitive conclusions regarding patients with sublime tubercle avulsion fractures and functional medial elbow instability.
- Other etiologies of groin pain include sports hernia, groin disruption, iliopsoas bursitis, stress fractures, avulsion fractures, nerve compression and snapping hip syndrome.
- The athlete commonly presents to the physician with a chronic untreated profundus avulsion.
- A subtle sign of instability is a fracture of the tip of the transverse process of L5, caused by avulsion of the iliolumbar ligament.
- Abandonment of a former course through avulsion and meander-loop cut-off produces many lakes.
