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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Division of the ligaments of a joint, so as to amputate at that point; amputation at a joint.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of disarticulating.
Examples
“It represents the baby-like disarticulation of the English word "selfish.”
“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
“Instead of legs and arms, instead of dismemberment, we read about the 'disarticulation' of 'fetal tissue'.”
“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.”
“Millipedes were killed by disarticulation, often through decapitation, using the clypeus as a lever.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Amputations and genital injuries increase sharply among soldiers in Afghanistan
“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
“This disarticulation of phantasy from creative writing then aids in uncovering some of the wishes impelling either or both.”
“For all their disarticulation, Morrison's poems employ an elaborate formal fiction. "please advise stop" is one of fifty-four poems with the same title and three-tercet form.”
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reesetee 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. Nov 14, 2008