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单词 avulsion
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Definition of avulsion in English:

avulsion

noun əˈvʌlʃ(ə)nəˈvəlʃən
mass nounMedicine
  • 1The action of pulling or tearing away.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With our small patient population, it is difficult to reach definitive conclusions regarding patients with sublime tubercle avulsion fractures and functional medial elbow instability.
    • Treatment using nail avulsion in combination with topical therapy has been somewhat more successful, but this approach can be time-consuming, temporarily disabling and painful.
    • 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.
    • It is possible that avulsion fractures in which the ACL is avulsed from its femoral insertion occur mainly before skeletal maturity.
    1. 1.1Law The sudden separation of land from one property and its attachment to another, especially by flooding or a change in the course of a river.
      Compare with alluvion
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Avulsion in a coastal area, of course, simply destroys property and moves the boundary, as there is no opposite bank to gain.
      • Ohio Revised Code (Law) states that land lost by erosion but regained by avulsion, reverts ownership back to the upland property owner.
      • Abandonment of a former course through avulsion and meander-loop cut-off produces many lakes.

Derivatives

  • avulse

  • verb əˈvʌlsəˈvəls
    [with object]Medicine
    • Pull or tear away.

      all hairs were avulsed from the root
      Example sentencesExamples
      • replantation of avulsed permanent teeth
      • The worst injury he had seen since he started at Heiwa had been a nearly avulsed finger that had been slammed in a closed door by a careless gentleman who had let the good news of his engagement get the better of him.
      • At Westminster, he played rugby, and when a scrum collapsed, he avulsed a spinous process, very painful, but he was able to claim later that he had ‘broken his back.’
      • For this reason, great pains are taken to ensure that the dry creek bed is properly prepared to receive the flow of the tributary now avulsing over the alluvial fan.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin avulsio(n-), from the verb avellere, from ab- 'from' + vallere 'pluck'.

Rhymes

compulsion, convulsion, emulsion, expulsion, impulsion, propulsion, repulsion, revulsion
 
 

Definition of avulsion in US English:

avulsion

nounəˈvəlSHənəˈvəlʃən
Medicine
  • 1The action of pulling or tearing away.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The athlete commonly presents to the physician with a chronic untreated profundus avulsion.
    • Treatment using nail avulsion in combination with topical therapy has been somewhat more successful, but this approach can be time-consuming, temporarily disabling and painful.
    • Other etiologies of groin pain include sports hernia, groin disruption, iliopsoas bursitis, stress fractures, avulsion fractures, nerve compression and snapping hip syndrome.
    • With our small patient population, it is difficult to reach definitive conclusions regarding patients with sublime tubercle avulsion fractures and functional medial elbow instability.
    • It is possible that avulsion fractures in which the ACL is avulsed from its femoral insertion occur mainly before skeletal maturity.
    1. 1.1Law The sudden separation of land from one property and its attachment to another, especially by flooding or a change in the course of a river.
      Compare with alluvion
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Ohio Revised Code (Law) states that land lost by erosion but regained by avulsion, reverts ownership back to the upland property owner.
      • Avulsion in a coastal area, of course, simply destroys property and moves the boundary, as there is no opposite bank to gain.
      • Abandonment of a former course through avulsion and meander-loop cut-off produces many lakes.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin avulsio(n-), from the verb avellere, from ab- ‘from’ + vallere ‘pluck’.

 
 
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