Avulsion injury
Injury where a body structure is torn off / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Avulsion injury?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
This article is about avulsion injuries other than Avulsion fractures. For other uses, see Avulsion (disambiguation).
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").[1] The term most commonly refers to a surface trauma where all layers of the skin have been torn away, exposing the underlying structures (i.e., subcutaneous tissue, muscle, tendons, or bone). This is similar to an abrasion but more severe, as body parts such as an eyelid or an ear can be partially or fully detached from the body.