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- verb Present participle of
disarticulate .
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Examples
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In a news conference, Mr. Poiré described the arrests, dubbed "Operation Guest," as "disarticulating an international criminal organization" with links to Canada, the U.S. and several Middle East countries.
Mexico Alleges Escape Plot by a Gadhafi Son Nicholas Casey 2011
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This disarticulating dismemberment of the body will be linked to the linguistic understanding of materiality and specifically to the disarticulation of tropes, as indeed the term (figure? trope?) "disarticulation" suggests.
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Scattered through this disarticulating Europe were the vestiges of the old militarism, broken fragments of unpaid armies with irreplaceable weapons and a dwindling supply of ammunition.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Spikelets are unilateral, sessile, crowded, biseriate on a slender rachis with four to six glumes and 1 to 3-flowered; the rachilla is produced and disarticulating above the empty glumes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are about 1/8 inch excluding the awn, very shortly pedicelled, biseriate, unilateral, disarticulating above the first two glumes which are persistent, purplish or pale, 1 - to 3-flowered, usually
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Hospital, on January 6, 1890, I removed one-half of the lower jaw, disarticulating at the temporo-maxillary joint by the following method:
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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I have repeatedly succeeded by cutting in on the hip joint and disarticulating it, then dissecting the muscles back from the upper end of the thigh bone.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Instead of disarticulating, the bones may be sawn across, a little in advance of the articulation as proposed by Hey and Cloquet, facilitating the operation, and giving results equally as satisfactory.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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Watt has resected the entire clavicle by making three incisions, circumscribing a quadrilateral flap, and disarticulating the bone at either extremity.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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Syme's operation is a great improvement on the older methods of disarticulating at the ankle joint.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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