What is the meaning of avulsion?

noun

  • An abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another.
  • A forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another. .
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