What's the difference between avulse and avulsion?

Avulse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pluck or pull off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An 11-year clinical and radiographic follow-up of an avulsed tooth, replanted within 15 minutes, has been presented.
  • (2) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
  • (3) Early bronchoscopy revealed two bronchial avulsions, two aspirations, and ruled out one suspected aspiration.
  • (4) A 16-year-old male passenger involved in an automobile accident was observed at autopsy to have total avulsion of the heart from its vascular connections and severe unilateral pulmonary edema.
  • (5) The findings support the view that primary repair of severed proximal nerves in this age group--even in avulsion type injuries--can give good results.
  • (6) A case of aortic insufficiency due to avulsion of two of three semilunar valves was remarkable because of the intimal and medial tears which caused it.
  • (7) Methods of treatment of nail bed avulsions, both historic and modern, are described.
  • (8) Traumatic avulsion of the common canaliculus was repaired in one patient by using a segment of the angular vein as an autograft.
  • (9) Two cases of avulsion of the cranial margin of the scapula are presented.
  • (10) Good long-term pain relief was evident in some paraplegics and in all patients with brachial plexus avulsion.
  • (11) However, no significant relationship between resorption and the time that the avulsed tooth was out of the mouth was demonstrated.
  • (12) The postulated mechanism of injury is a powerful contraction of the omohyoid muscle avulsing its insertion.
  • (13) The cases are discussed of two patients with an avulsion fracture of the inferior-anterior iliac spine.
  • (14) Two documented cases involving avulsions of an incisor and a cuspid are reported.
  • (15) Fracture-subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint, avulsion fractures of the extensor tendon, and distal phalangeal epiphyseal injuries are excluded to regidly control the data interpretation.
  • (16) Revascularization of fingers injured by a ring avulsion, and restoration of tactile gnosis with esthetic coverage make salvage of the valued ulnar fingers feasible.
  • (17) A protocol of surgery is suggested which replaces stripping by the stab-avulsion technique.
  • (18) This explains in part the more frequent occurrence of avulsion of the ring finger profundus tendon as observed clinically.
  • (19) Varicose veins of any size (except telangiectasia) and in any site of the lower limb (except the saphenofemoral junction) can be avulsed through multiple 0.5-mm (or larger) incisions under local infiltration anesthesia (Müller's technique).
  • (20) In 53% of all EFLDH a bony avulsion of the vertebral end-plate facing the herniation was demonstrated at the site of attachment of Sharpey's fibers.

Avulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
  • (n.) A fragment torn off.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An 11-year clinical and radiographic follow-up of an avulsed tooth, replanted within 15 minutes, has been presented.
  • (2) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
  • (3) Early bronchoscopy revealed two bronchial avulsions, two aspirations, and ruled out one suspected aspiration.
  • (4) A 16-year-old male passenger involved in an automobile accident was observed at autopsy to have total avulsion of the heart from its vascular connections and severe unilateral pulmonary edema.
  • (5) The findings support the view that primary repair of severed proximal nerves in this age group--even in avulsion type injuries--can give good results.
  • (6) A case of aortic insufficiency due to avulsion of two of three semilunar valves was remarkable because of the intimal and medial tears which caused it.
  • (7) Methods of treatment of nail bed avulsions, both historic and modern, are described.
  • (8) Traumatic avulsion of the common canaliculus was repaired in one patient by using a segment of the angular vein as an autograft.
  • (9) Two cases of avulsion of the cranial margin of the scapula are presented.
  • (10) Good long-term pain relief was evident in some paraplegics and in all patients with brachial plexus avulsion.
  • (11) However, no significant relationship between resorption and the time that the avulsed tooth was out of the mouth was demonstrated.
  • (12) The postulated mechanism of injury is a powerful contraction of the omohyoid muscle avulsing its insertion.
  • (13) The cases are discussed of two patients with an avulsion fracture of the inferior-anterior iliac spine.
  • (14) Two documented cases involving avulsions of an incisor and a cuspid are reported.
  • (15) Fracture-subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint, avulsion fractures of the extensor tendon, and distal phalangeal epiphyseal injuries are excluded to regidly control the data interpretation.
  • (16) Revascularization of fingers injured by a ring avulsion, and restoration of tactile gnosis with esthetic coverage make salvage of the valued ulnar fingers feasible.
  • (17) A protocol of surgery is suggested which replaces stripping by the stab-avulsion technique.
  • (18) This explains in part the more frequent occurrence of avulsion of the ring finger profundus tendon as observed clinically.
  • (19) Varicose veins of any size (except telangiectasia) and in any site of the lower limb (except the saphenofemoral junction) can be avulsed through multiple 0.5-mm (or larger) incisions under local infiltration anesthesia (Müller's technique).
  • (20) In 53% of all EFLDH a bony avulsion of the vertebral end-plate facing the herniation was demonstrated at the site of attachment of Sharpey's fibers.

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