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dislocate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | displace |
| Derivation | dislocation |
Examples of dislocate
dislocate
The kneecap could dislocate, resulting in an injury requiring emergency treatment.
From the stltoday.com
If you yawn too much, you may dislocate your jaw, and that would not be nice.
From the economist.com
When you dislocate your shoulder, you also tear ligaments making the shoulder less stable.
From the stltoday.com
It would cause her knee to not track correctly in its groove and would dislocate often.
From the orlandosentinel.com
If you dislocate your shoulder, you will likely experience tremendous, incapacitating pain.
From the stltoday.com
The shoulder joint can dislocate forward, backward or downward.
From the sciencedaily.com
Nothing in Common never settles into a self-confident stride, but it does dislocate, discomfit.
From the time.com
When you dislocate a shoulder, it takes a lot more time.
From the guardian.co.uk
You dislocate yourselves from the normal network, and you're aware of that, and you disappoint people.
From the canberratimes.com.au
- Move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
- Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
- (dislocated) disjointed: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
- (dislocation) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
- (dislocation) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
- (dislocation) a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
- In materials science, a dislocation is a crystallographic defect or irregularity, within a crystal structure. The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of materials. The theory was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1905. ...
- (Dislocation (medicine)) Joint dislocation, or luxation (Latin: luxatio) , occurs when bones in a joint become displaced or misaligned. It is often caused by a sudden impact to the joint. The ligaments always become damaged as a result of a dislocation. A subluxation is a partial dislocation.
- (Dislocation (syntax)) In syntax, dislocation is a sentence structure in which a constituent which could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of the clause occurs outside the clause boundaries either to its left or to its right as in English They went to the store, Mary and Peter.
