What's the difference between evulsion and revulsion?
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.
Revulsion
Definition:
(n.) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
(n.) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
(n.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(3) It took place on 6 July 2011, two days after the Guardian had published the story about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone that unleashed a wave of national revulsion and led to the closure of the News of the World.
(4) The foundation's decision to stand firm in the face of a nationwide wave of revulsion to last month's bloody events is all the more striking given that the organisation's headquarters are located in Newtown, just three miles from Sandy Hook school where the carnage occurred.
(5) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(6) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(7) Ruling parties, political elites and former ministers in a string of EU countries are embroiled in cash-for-influence scandals that are exposing widespread allegations of corruption, triggering public revulsion and a voters' backlash.
(8) The move was implemented by the party's chief whip, Nick Brown, and fuelled by backbench revulsion at claims that the trio had been using their ministerial experience to seek profitable lobbying consultancies.
(9) Another case that sparked public revulsion was that of Victoria Climbié, who was beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to sleep in a binliner in a bath during her short life.
(10) Clinton repeated her support for a woman’s right to control her body, while Trump showed his revulsion of late-term abortions and repeatedly described it as “ rip[ping] the baby out of the womb ”.
(11) Revulsion against a discredited elite and its failed social and economic project steadily deepened after 2008.
(12) My revulsion at this act of terrorism happened in black church on a Wednesday night is twofold: I’m horrified that nine lives have been stolen, destroying life as it was known for countless families and an entire congregation; I’m nauseated that the good folks taking care of their communities on Wednesday nights will now do so with varying degrees of terror forever.
(13) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(14) When South Africa's apartheid police massacred 69 people in Sharpeville in 1960, the revulsion spread as far as northern England.
(15) Tony Abbott says the world should be “filled with revulsion” at the news a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying at least 23 Australians was reportedly shot down in Ukraine on Thursday.
(16) Public revulsion at his actions played a decisive role in winning support for the lengthy campaign of peaceful civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi which culminated in Indian independence in 1947.
(17) Today, in a sudden revulsion against market economics he is penalising buy-to-let investors – and their tenants.
(18) In 2010 the director of Rivarol , Jérôme Bourgon, told Le Monde : “For me Marine Le Pen is a demon , an absolute enemy from all points of view … It’s total revulsion, which is in fact reciprocal.” Marine has called on her father to fall on his sword and step out of the political ring.
(19) In May, two girls in Uttar Pradesh state found hanging from a tree had been gang-raped in a case that sparked public revulsion.
(20) I remember the embarrassment, the discomfort, at the lascivious drool coming from his chops, and the physical revulsion at his presumed erection from looking at a girl pretty much the same as me, but without the school uniform and with probably fewer chances in life.