Definition of Avulsing

1. avulse [v] - See also: avulse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avulsing

avowees
avower
avowers
avowing
avowries
avowry
avows
avowtries
avowtry
avoyer
avoyers
avulse
avulsed
avulsed wound
avulses
avulsing (current term)
avulsion
avulsion fracture
avulsions
avulsive
avulsive cutoff
avuncular
avuncularities
avuncularity
avuncularly
avunculate
avunculates
avunculicide
avunculicides
avunculocal

Literary usage of Avulsing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"To show the concomitant results within the pons of dividing and avulsing the sensory root, we operated upon four cats, dividing the root in two cases and ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"On June 11 we induced delivery by avulsing the cervix, packing with gauze, removing it in twenty-four hours, and inserting a Voorhees bag for twelve hours, ..."

3. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"... ACTUALLY avulsing THEM FROU THEIR BONY ATTACHMENT». Arrows show direction of the rupture. let him pull the head down into the pelvis before the cervix ..."

4. Operative Surgery by John Shelton Horsley (1921)
"posterior sensory root instead of avulsing them, and he docs this with a special guillotine knife which is slipped over the fibers. He feels that division, ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1902)
"... removal of an exostosis of the great toe, removal of wire ligatures from a compound fracture of the tibia, avulsing a finger nail, and such like. ..."

6. A Manual of surgery for students and physicians by Francis T. Stewart (1921)
"The local treatment is rest, cleanliness, elevation, prevention of deformity. The granulations may be protected from the avulsing effect of dry dressings by ..."

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