DISLOCATION
\dɪslə͡ʊkˈe͡ɪʃən], \dɪsləʊkˈeɪʃən], \d_ɪ_s_l_əʊ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DISLOCATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
By Princeton University
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a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
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The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
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The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
By Oddity Software
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
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The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
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The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Displacement of an organ or any part; specifically a disturbance or disarrangement of the normal relation of the bones entering into the formation of a joint; luxation.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A dislocated joint: displacement: (geol.) a "fault," or displacement of stratified rocks.
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of displacing, specially of putting out of joint; a dislocated joint; the displacement of portions of a stratified rock from its original position; a fault.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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State of being put out of joint; the act of forcing a bone out of its socket, particularly as the result of accident; in geol., displacement of stratified rocks from their original or sedimentary position.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A dislocation is an abnormal, total or partial displacement of the articular portions of the bones entering into the formation of a joint from each other. Dislocations are classified as traumatic, congenital, and pathological. A partial or incomplete dislocation is called subluxation. An habitual dislocation is a dislocation frequently following insignificant trauma or muscular action, voluntary or involuntary. A compound dislocation is one in which there is a wound connecting the dislocation with the external air.
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Displacement of an organ from its usual place, e.g., cardiac dislocation. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
