MEANING
The forcible tearing away of tissue or another attached structure.
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- tissue avulsion
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The impact caused tissue avulsion.
The scan showed an avulsion injury.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular avulsion; plural avulsions. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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