See Also: nerve avulsion(medicine)
Avulsion(health)
avulsion(dictionary)
Avulsion(medicine)
AVULSION(law)
avulsion fracture(medicine)
tooth avulsion(medicine)
root avulsion(medicine)
communicating branch of median nerve with ulnar nerve(medicine)
communicating branches of lingual nerve to hypoglossal nerve(medicine)

smew (iou) and nerve avulsion (medicine)


smew (iou)



smew noun. [smju:] L17.
[Obscurely rel. to Dutch smient, smeente, Low German sment wigeon, German Schmeiente, Schmi-, Schmu- small wild duck (from Ente duck).]
A medium-sized Eurasian saw-billed duck, Mergus albellus, having grey and white plumage with the head red-brown and white, or in the breeding male, black and white. Also called white merganser.
red-headed smew: see RED adjective.

nerve avulsion (medicine)


nerve avulsion


The tearing away of a peripheral nerve at its point of origin from its parent nerve due to traction.