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Definition of Divulsions
1. divulsion [n] - See also: divulsion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divulsions
Literary usage of Divulsions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... act magically there, and produce divulsions and convulsions and diseased
developments. So dark and abstruse, without lamp or authentic finger-post, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"It must be so, alas ! even when the divulsions are made in the happiest manner.
But here the tearing away had nothing in it to reconcile ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Subsequent contraction takes place, requiring one or more subsequent divulsions
unless contraction is prevented by the periodic passage of sounds as for ..."
4. Literary Essays by Richard Holt Hutton (1888)
"... act magically there, and produce divulsions and convulsions and diseased
developments. So dark and abstruse, without lamp or authentic finger-post, ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"... a mortality of 60 per cent., and a mean duration of life of fifty days.
Three retrograde divulsions all resulted in recovery, with a mean duration of ..."
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