What's the difference between avulsion and laceration?

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.

Laceration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of lacerating.
  • (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
  • (2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
  • (3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (4) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
  • (5) It is pointed to the stiching up of skin over the prominent parts of bones after dividing the newborns sub partu to avoid a laceration of the mother womb and vagina.
  • (6) The incidence of tibial fractures, ankle injuries and lacerations also declined.
  • (7) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
  • (8) One other patient who had a satisfactory response underwent surgery for a pancreatic laceration.
  • (9) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
  • (10) The authors present a rare case of closed abdominal trauma in a five year old girl resulting from a washtub fall on her causing three lacerations in the middle third of the esophagus, identified 48 hours after the trauma.
  • (11) The use of intravenous lignocaine is thus recommended for children at risk, such as those needing an urgent operation because of lacerated eye injury under rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia.
  • (12) Placental laceration as a result of blunt maternal trauma has rarely been reported.
  • (13) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
  • (14) A case report of traumatic hemobilia following suture of superficial laceration of the liver is presented.
  • (15) The incidence of instrument-assisted deliveries (BC = 7, DT = 6), episiotomies (BC = 27, DT = 20), lacerations (BC = 17, DT = 5), and hemorrhoids (BC = 14, DT = 4) was similar between groups.
  • (16) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
  • (17) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
  • (18) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
  • (19) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
  • (20) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.

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