What's the difference between evulsion and pulling?
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.
Pulling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pull
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(3) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(6) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
(7) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
(8) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(9) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(10) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(11) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(12) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(13) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(16) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(17) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(18) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
(19) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.