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dislocated::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disjointed, separated |
a dislocated knee.
Examples of dislocated
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Incognito missed the Rams'final eight games last year with a dislocated kneecap.
From the sacbee.com
Black dislocated his left shoulder in last week's 37-13 win at Eastern Kentucky.
From the courier-journal.com
His left shoulder was dislocated in the Penguins'first exhibition game Sept. 20.
From the post-gazette.com
He also made a big pass breakup on the play in which he dislocated his shoulder.
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Cornerback Patrick Dendy aggravated a finger that he dislocated a few weeks ago.
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Villa midfielder Stiliyan Petrov suffered a dislocated shoulder against Atlante.
From the washingtontimes.com
Otago coach Tony Brown confirmed yesterday that Grant has a dislocated shoulder.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He left the game in the third quarter with a dislocated finger on his left hand.
From the miamiherald.com
Dallas was without center Erick Dampier, who had surgery on a dislocated finger.
From the stltoday.com
- 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.
