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n.- The act of plucking out.

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Usage examples (4)
  • The evulsion at the slaughter of 600,000 men in Civil War and the challenges that will come with peace.
  • An MRI revealed that Favre has an evulsion fracture, in which the ligament pulls a piece of bone from the bone, of the calcaneus (heel bone) and a stress fracture.
  • This is very proper in Glo'ster, newly maimed by the evulsion of his eyes.
  • It was just an evulsion fracture.
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  • A bad accident may result in "avulsion" (forcible separation) of an arm or leg. Shaking a champagne bottle may result in "evulsion" (sudden extraction) of the cork.
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