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Definition: Avulsion |
AvulsionNoun1. A forcible tearing or separation of one body part from another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "avulsion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Etymology: Avulsion \A*vul"sion\, noun. [Latin expression avulsio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Separation of a portion of land by the action of a river when it breaks across the narrow neck of a horseshoe bend or, due to entire change in the course of a river when it breaks through one of its banks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The forcible separation, or tearing away, of a part of an organ. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Division, subdivision, rupture; compartition ; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion, divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility, separability. |
Extraction | Evulsion, avulsion; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation, extermination; ejection; export; (egress). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Avulsion |
| English words defined with "avulsion": avulse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Avulsion" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (avulsion). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For avulsion and rupture injuries there is no potential for recovery unless surgical reconnection is made in a timely manner. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "avulsion": avulsion of the optic nerve ♦ brachial plexus avulsion ♦ Tooth Avulsion. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "avulsion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkëputje (abruption, detachment, disengagement, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, parting, secession, separation), largim (alienation, back track, backtrack, departure, deviousness, dissimilation, drain, elimination, evacuation, expulsion, getaway, leave, moving away, parting, recession, removal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | откъсване (breakaway, detachment, intercept, interception, tearing off, tweak), откъсната част (outlier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | avulsion, avulsio, afsprængning, afrivning (bond liftoff, divulsion, torn tread), løsrivning, knogleafsprængning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | avulsio,afscheuring (divulsion), avulsio (evulsion), avulsie, afscheuring, losrukken, kortsluiting (short circuit), gewelddadige scheiding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | repeäminen, murtuma (breach, break, fracture), läpimurto (breach, break-through), irtirepäisy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avulsion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Avulsio, Ausrenken (dislocate, put out, to dislocate), Absprengung, Abschwemmung (a river, avulsion of land, encroachment by the sea, etc.on banks and shores), Abriss (demolition, outline, summary, tear-off part), Abriß (design, diagram, plan, plane, stub, talon), Knochenabsprengung, Durchbruch (appearance, breach, breakaway, breaking through, breakthrough, coming through, falling through, penetration, perforation, resurgence, revelation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξόρυξις (divulsion), εξαίρεσις (ablation(artificial), amotio, balatio, detachment, divulsion), απόσπασις (ablation(artificial), amotio, balatio, detachment, divulsion), αποκοπή,απόστασις, απορρωγή,απόσπαση, αποτομή,απόσπαση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leszakított rész. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avulsione (avulsion of land, divulsion, evulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avulsionay avulsão (evulsion). (various references) smulgere (evulsion, pluck, wrench), separare bruscã. (various references) вырывание (evulsion, extraction), отрывание (evulsion), авульсия. (various references) nasilno odvajanje. (various references) avulsión (evulsion). (various references) avulsio, avskärning. (various references) розрив (breach, breaking, bursting, chasm, denunciation, dissolution, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear), відрив (abruption, breakaway), авульсія. (various references) sự nhổ bật ra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "avulsion": avulsions. (additional references) | |
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"Avulsion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aullsion, aulsion, Ausino, Avellino, Avildsen, avolsion, Savilleion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "avulsion" (pronounced 'A*vul"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension, Confession. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-o-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: aloins, anvils, avions, insoul, silvan, vinals, vinous, violas, visual. | |
-3 letters: aloin, anils, anvil, avion, aviso, linos, lions, loans, loins, louis, lunas, nails, nival, noils, novas, ovals, salon, salvo, savin, silva, slain, snail, solan, ulans, ulnas, ulvas, unais, vails, vials, vinal, vinas, vinos, viola, viols, voila. | |
-4 letters: ails, ains, also, anil, anis, anus, avos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-o-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: alluvions, avulsions, nonvisual, univocals. | |
+2 letters: ovalbumins, ovulations, valuations, villainous. | |
+3 letters: eluviations, evaluations, novaculites, voluntaries, voluntarism, voluntarist. | |
+4 letters: consultative, countervails, cultivations, devaluations, illuviations, nonuniversal, postdiluvian, revaluations, unchivalrous, vacuolations, vainglorious, vesiculation, villainously, voluntarisms, voluntarists, voluntaryism, voluntaryist. | |
+5 letters: carnivorously, cavernicolous, convulsionary, equivocalness, intravenously, misevaluation, nonuniversals, overslaughing, postdiluvians, reevaluations, subvocalizing, vesiculations, visualization, voluntariness, voluntaristic, voluntaryisms, voluntaryists, vulcanisation, vulcanologies, vulcanologist. | |
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