avulse

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“We realized this spectacular archive recorded a major event that reorganized the delta’s water pathways,” Chamberlain says, adding that the delta’s river channel probably hasn’t avulsed since then.

From Science Magazine

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine

“His left hand was completely avulsed with part of the bones attached to the body while the hand skin and muscle got detached,” Dr. Abhishek Ghosha, a micro-vascular surgeon who treated the boy, said.

From Fox News

In the last seven thousand years, the river has avulsed six times, and each time it has set about laying down a new bulge of land.

From The New Yorker

The X-ray showed that a bit of bone had avulsed from his pelvis.

From The Guardian