(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.
Contusion
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
(n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(2) Thirty-two (56%) had moderate-severe pulmonary contusions and 44 (77%) required chest tubes for hemo-pneumothorax.
(3) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
(4) The slopes of the recruitment curves were markedly reduced subsequent to contusion injury.
(5) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
(6) These data suggest that when less advanced monitoring equipment is available, the differential Pawpeak might be used as a measure of differential lung mechanics in asymmetrical pulmonary contusion.
(7) The delayed appearance of syringomyelia after a severe single spinal trauma resulting in contusion of the spinal cord without the complication of arachnoiditis is a more recent issue, but is now well-known.
(8) Associated many severe head injuries (brain contusion etc.)
(9) The pathogenesis is discussed: a fold of contused myocardium, or immediate or late traumatic obstruction of the anterior descending artery, or both factors at the same time?
(10) They reported on 257 incidents, 8% of which were contusions and 24% resulted in fractures.
(11) Contusive damage to the choroid and retina limited final visual and anatomic results after blunt rupture of the globe.
(12) The nosology of pulmonary contusion is discussed in relation to several factors, including shock, perfusions and associated lesions.
(13) I) the absence of variations in average cerebral blood flow, measured by the method of LASSEN, following treatment of traumatic coma by means of hyperbaric oxygenation patients presenting with brainstem contusion, during 2 hours of HBO (at 2.5 times atmospheric pressure) measurements of cerebral blood flow were made using a single detecting probe, before and two hours after terminating HBO.
(14) Eight patients had contusion injuries and 12 perforating injuries.
(15) Possible pathogenic mechanisms included hemorrhage into previously undetected areas of contusion, damage to cerebral vasculature secondary to rapid perioperative parenchymal shift, and sudden increase in cerebral blood flow combined with focal disruption of autoregulation; of these, the latter mechanism seemed most likely to be responsible for the hematoma formation.
(16) Three patients with Down's syndrome had complications: one with a preoperative Brown-Sequard syndrome had transient worsening in the immediate postoperative period, one with a preoperative myelopathy developed a late recurrence of a severe myelopathy that required odontectomy, and another sustained an intraoperative spinal cord contusion followed by postoperative quadriplegia and death due to respiratory failure.
(17) Of these, two had a contusion and one had a complete transection of the pancreas.
(18) The effects of a single contusion without surface disruption and without fracture of the patella were studied in 40 rabbits.
(19) Multivariate analysis identified two factors predictive of a myocardial contusion: an abnormal ECG and an ISS greater than 10.
(20) Ninety-eight brain contusions in 17 patients served as a data base for a comparative study of MR and CT for defining brain contusions.