Avulsion injury
INJURY IN WHICH A BODY STRUCTURE IS FORCIBLY DETACHED FROM ITS NORMAL POINT OF INSERTION
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In medicine, an avulsion is an injury in which a body structure is torn off by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off"). The term most commonly refers to a surface trauma where all layers of the skin have been torn away, exposing the underlying structures (i.