[əˈvʌlʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the action of pulling or tearing away
(e.g: the cause of death was aortic avulsion)

- the sudden separation of land from one property and its attachment to another, especially by flooding or a change in the course of a river
(e.g: fluvial environments susceptible to frequent avulsion)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin avulsio(n-), from the verb avellere, from ab- ‘from’ + vallere ‘pluck’