revulsion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVUL'SION, noun [Latin revulsus, revello; re and vello, to pull.] 1. In medicine, the act of turning or diverting a flux of humors or any cause of disease, from one part of the body to another. 2. The act of holding or drawing back.
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