Definition of Avulses

1. avulse [v] - See also: avulse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avulses

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

Literary usage of Avulses

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

1. Operative Surgery by John Shelton Horsley (1921)
"All of the fibers of the posterior sensory root are gathered with a small blunt hook and gentle traction is made which avulses the libers from their origin ..."

2. Traumatic surgery by John Joseph Moorhead (1917)
"ligament which (i) avulses the external malleolus, or the latter is broken by pressure of the astragalus. (2) If the violence continues, the tip of the ..."

3. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1906)
"... important structures need by no means be in the least necessarily endangered. CW Mayo avulses the second division at the intra-orbital foramen after ..."

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