April 30, 2010

The word of the day is

avulsion.

Shivers me timbers.

posted by in language | * | 7 comments 

comments

  1. Daryl Scroggins on April 30th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

    so what does that make–revulsion?

  2. Sheila Ryan on April 30th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    Maybe emulsion.

    But it’s icky.

  3. Daryl Scroggins on April 30th, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Can’t resist word play. Part of aevulusion I guess.

  4. Wells on April 30th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    Another entry into the do-not-google-image-search list.

  5. Phil Bebbington on May 1st, 2010 at 4:37 am

    NO! Really don’t do an image search. Why did I do that? I guess it was a bit like the compulsion to look at a car accident.

    I don’t want me one of them there avulsions.

  6. walt on May 1st, 2010 at 8:05 am

    yeah, the day i studied those in anatomy class wasn’t an easy one.

  7. Sheila Ryan on May 1st, 2010 at 10:36 am

    So you guys are saying maybe I shouldn’t post the X-ray? It’s just the teensiest little avulsion fracture.

    Nah. Reckon not.

Leave a Reply


Ads via The Deck