Usually means: Sudden removal of land, water.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. avulsion: Merriam-Webster
  2. avulsion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avulsion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avulsion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avulsion: Vocabulary.com
  6. avulsion: Wordnik
  7. avulsion: Wiktionary
  8. avulsion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. avulsion: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. avulsion: Dictionary.com
  11. Avulsion (injury), Avulsion (legal term), Avulsion (river), Avulsion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Avulsion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. avulsion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. avulsion: Rhymezone
  15. Avulsion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. avulsion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. avulsion: FreeDictionary.org
  18. avulsion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. avulsion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. avulsion: Merriam-Webster

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. avulsion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. avulsion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. avulsion: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. avulsion: Legal dictionary
  9. avulsion: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avulsion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. avulsion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Avulsion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Avulsion: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. avulsion: Medical dictionary
  9. Avulsion: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avulsion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (avulsion)

noun:  (medicine, pathology) The loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma.
noun:  An abrupt change in the course of a river, typically from one channel to another.
noun:  (hydrology) Movement of soil during a flood, or during a change in the course of a river, especially when a resulting change of land ownership is involved.

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