Definition of Avulsed

1. avulse [v] - See also: avulse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avulsed

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

Literary usage of Avulsed

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

1. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1921)
"The roots of the brachial plexus are shown avulsed from the spinal cord. The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh cervical roots are completely avulsed; ..."

2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"In the Surgical Museum at Edinburgh there is preserved a thumb and part of the flexor longus pollicis attached, which were avulsed simultaneously. ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"The avulsed roots were ragged and irregularly torn at a point about 3 ... Clinically, the animals in which the root was avulsed showed more marked ..."

4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association by American Laryngological Association (1917)
"This raw surface showed fibrous bands and fragments of periosteum where it had been avulsed from the vertebra and the occipital, and the finger in the ..."

5. Traumatic surgery by John Joseph Moorhead (1917)
"The knee is swollen and cannot be extended, and the avulsed movable bony process can be felt in an abnormal position, and when restored it will ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Surgery: Designed for Students and Practitioners by George Tully Vaughan (1903)
"Under no circumstances should strong traction by means of apparatus be made on the thumb, as the last phalanx may be avulsed. Dennis figures in his "System ..."

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