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The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
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abrasion
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Abrasion \Ab*ra"sion\, n. [L. abrasio, fr. abradere. See Abrade .] The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. The substance rubbed off. --Berkeley. (Med.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of ...
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Abrasion is the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from a foreign element. If this force begins at the cementoenamel junction , then progression of tooth loss can be rapid since enamel is very thin in this region of the tooth. Once past the enamel, ...
Usage examples of abrasion.
Gordon realized the improbability of this small abrasion severing the plastic.
Gordon, through the long day, continued to squirm and hitch to increase the abrasion on the fetter.
A mosquito bite, a cut, or the slightest abrasion, serves for lodgment of the poison with which the air seems to be filled.
All white men in the Solomons catch yaws, and every cut or abrasion practically means another yaw.
A small area of abrasion or contusion was on the cheek near the right ear, and a prominent dried abrasion was on the lower left side of the neck.
At Port Resolution, in the New Hebrides, Martin elected to walk barefooted in the bush and returned on board with many cuts and abrasions, especially on his shins.
Privately I ascribed her immunity to the fact that, being a woman, she escaped most of the cuts and abrasions to which we hard-working men were subject in the course of working the Snark around the world.
The hymen was not intact, and abrasions along the vaginal wall were visible.
He might abuse her in some other way, such as by inserting his fingers or an object to demonstrate his control and contempt, and in fact, we soon learned of the vaginal abrasions and bruising.
She lived such an athletic life that she often had abrasions and cuts where a surfboard had clipped her.
She stated the only reason she went to the doctor was due to the abrasions on her knee getting infected.
She showed me a large bruise on her left thigh and healing abrasions on her left knee.
Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.
On October 9, 2000, Liysa arrived at a hospital emergency room with a bruised eye and abrasions on her knee.
The labia was normal, what you would assume post intercourse and there were no internal abrasions like with the first bride.