Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Division of the ligaments of a joint, so as to amputate at that point; amputation at a joint.
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- noun The act of
disarticulating .
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Examples
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It represents the baby-like disarticulation of the English word "selfish."
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While doing this the idea of disarticulation at the hip came into my mind, and in a few months an Episcopal minister from Alabama came to me with a sarcoma of the thigh, requiring amputation at the hip, and the method worked perfectly.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Instead of legs and arms, instead of dismemberment, we read about the 'disarticulation' of 'fetal tissue'.
Balkinization 2007
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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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She seems to wonder at the inexplicable attraction of female to male, despite the risk of imprisonment in love or spiritual dismemberment: "disarticulation" is the word she used in
unknown title 2009
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Also on the increase are patients requiring "hip disarticulation" - the removal of the entire thigh bone, which makes fitting and using a prosthesis more difficult.
Amputations and genital injuries increase sharply among soldiers in Afghanistan 2011
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Millipedes were killed by disarticulation, often through decapitation, using the clypeus as a lever.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Also on the increase are patients requiring "hip disarticulation" - the removal of the entire thigh bone, which makes fitting and using a prosthesis more difficult.
Amputations and genital injuries increase sharply among soldiers in Afghanistan 2011
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Police have released few details on the sixth and fifth feet, but the other four showed signs of disarticulation, which means the foot separated naturally from the leg, not through severing that would prompt speculation of foul play.
The Mystery is Afoot: Sixth Severed Foot Found in BC : Law is Cool 2008
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Police have released few details on the sixth and fifth feet, but the other four showed signs of disarticulation, which means the foot separated naturally from the leg, not through severing that would prompt speculation of foul play.
reesetee commented on the word disarticulation
A process in which large blocks of ice detach from the thinning and retreating terminus of a glacier that ends in a body of water. It occurs as the terminus thins to the point at which its buoyancy no longer allows it to remain in contact with its bed. As the glacier begins floating free and rising, it rapidly disintegrates along old fracture scars and crevasses.
November 15, 2008