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Definition of Avulse
1. Verb. Separate by avulsion.
Definition of Avulse
1. v. t. To pluck or pull off.
Definition of Avulse
1. Verb. (medicine) To tear off forcibly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avulse
1. to tear off forcibly [v AVULSED, AVULSING, AVULSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avulse
Literary usage of Avulse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Surgery: Designed for Students and Practitioners by George Tully Vaughan (1903)
"Hook it out and resect or divide, and avulse the peripheral portion. Internal
incision: Hold the mouth open by a gag on the opposite side ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"I then exposed and cut the second and third divisions at their foramina, grasped
them with forceps, and endeavored to avulse the ganglion with them. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"... the roots of these nerves was split with the knife, the distal ends of the
nerves were divided, and an attempt was made to avulse the ganglion. ..."
4. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"The force exerted by the cog drawing on the rope was sufficient to avulse hi.- whole
arm and shoulder-blade. There was comparatively little hemorrhage ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"These suggestions only concerned the means of reaching the gasserian ganglion to
excise or avulse it. Because of the high mortality resulting from avulsion ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... dal cor m'avulse." " Every one who knew him during his " brief period of
happiness will recall the " mystic enthusiasm with which he spoke " of her, ..."
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