Definition of Avulse

1. Verb. Separate by avulsion.

Generic synonyms: Separate
Derivative terms: 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

avowed(a)
avowedly
avowedness
avowee
avowees
avower
avowers
avowing
avowries
avowry
avows
avowtries
avowtry
avoyer
avoyers
avulse (current term)
avulsed
avulsed wound
avulses
avulsing
avulsion
avulsion fracture
avulsions
avulsive
avulsive cutoff
avuncular
avuncularities
avuncularity
avuncularly
avunculate

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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