What's the difference between avulsion and evulsion?
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.
Evulsion
Definition:
(n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nine-year-old boy suffered an evulsion of the optic nerve as a result of being hit on the left eye with a stick.
(2) Only fractures which include evulsion of the greater tuberosity deviate somewhat from that pattern.
(3) Graft evulsion was preceded by effort and heralded by axillary pain, an expanding hematoma, and a pseudoaneurysm formation.
(4) At revisits 3 and 6 months after evulsion, the budesonide-treated patients had significantly lower polyp scores than the placebo-treated patients.
(5) This double-blind parallel-group study compared the effect of budesonide with placebo, in the prophylaxis of nasal polyp recurrence after evulsion.
(6) A 12-year-old boy had partial evulsion of his optic nerve caused by blunt trauma and maintained good vision.
(7) Ablation of the male genitalia early in embryogenesis, or evulsion of the nerves that connect them to the ganglia, prevent the birth of these neurons.
(8) One case in which the canal was intact was interpreted as evulsion of the optic nerve.
(9) A patient presented a unique dental problem: the evulsion of mandibular canines, and the restoration of anterior alveolar bone associated with periodontal disease.
(10) Optic nerve evulsion is an uncommon traumatic event, which may result from various orbital or facial injuries.
(11) Therefore, electrocoagulation of the substantia gelatinosa was performed on the affected side of the evulsed plexus from the dorsal aspect of the cervical spinal cord (Dorsal-Root-Entry-Zone-Lesion, DREZ-operation).
(12) Blunt ocular trauma may cause damage to the retina (commotio retinae), retinal pigment epithelium (retinal pigment epithelial edema), choroid (choroidal rupture) and optic nerve (optic nerve evulsion) alone or in combination.
(13) The evulsed canines were reproduced in autocured acrylic and secured in the clasps of the denture.
(14) Evulsion fractures of the anterior inferior iliac spine in adults usually are the result of sudden contraction of the rectus femoris muscle during sporting activities, particularly football.
(15) This report describes the technique of stab evulsion phlebectomy performed in an outpatient setting.
(16) We examined a 2-year-old child with optic nerve evulsion after facial contusion.
(17) Ten days later, the fundus could not be seen due to vitreous opacity, so pars plana vitrectomy was performed 62 days after injury and optic nerve evulsion was recognized.
(18) With the use of a magnification table, fitted onto the X-ray intensifier, evulsion fractures of extensor tendons or collateral ligaments can be reduced and fixed by means of a K-wire.
(19) There was also difficulty in diagnosing fractures of the articular processes, evulsion fractures of the vertebrae and unilateral subluxation.
(20) This capacity was lost, however, when growth along old nerve branches was prevented by evulsing long segments of the nerve.