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Luxation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of luxating (a bone), or forcing it from its proper place or articulation.

n. The state of being luxated; a dislocation, as of a joint.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ

Word Usage

""Now, he labored under a very singular malady, -- not that I ever knew it at the time, -- a kind of luxation of the lower jaw, which, when it came on, happened somehow to press upon some vital nerve or other, and left him perfectly paralyzed till it was restored to its proper place."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

displacement shift

Hyponym

subluxation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dislocation

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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