divulsion

[ dih-vuhl-shuhn, dahy- ]

noun

, Surgery.

1. a tearing apart; violent separation.

divulsion

/ daɪˈvʌlʃən /

noun

1. a tearing or pulling apart

Derived Forms

• diˈvulsive, adjective

Other Words From

• di·vul·sive [dih-, vuhl, -siv], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of divulsion¹

1595–1605; < Latin dīvulsiōn- (stem of dīvulsiō ), equivalent to dīvuls ( us ) ( divulse ) + -iōn- -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of divulsion¹

C17: from Latin dīvulsiō, from dīvulsus torn apart, from dīvellere to rend, from di- ² + vellere to pull

Example Sentences

Trump’s announcement itself was disturbing – even setting aside the completely inappropriate description of the death, the unnecessary divulsion of details about the raid and Trump’s self-congratulatory comments making the event about himself.

From The Guardian

There has been the most violent fracture and divulsion; but the cause is still to seek; and it appears not in the vein; for it is not every fracture and dislocation of the solid body of our earth, in which minerals, or the proper substances of mineral veins, are found.

From Literature

Divulsion, di-vul′shun, n. act of pulling or rending asunder or away.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

It is only by reading such words as these that we can begin to divine what the divulsion of England and America has really meant to the vast host of human beings throughout the world who speak the English tongue.

From Project Gutenberg

This last idea he derides as 'false below confute, arising perhaps from a small and stridulous noise which, being firmly rooted, it maketh upon divulsion of parts.'

From Project Gutenberg