Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To disjoint; put out of joint; luxate.
- In surgery, to sever the ligamentous connections of at a joint; amputate at a joint: as, to exarticulate the thumb.
- In zoology, not jointed; not consisting of two or more joints; inarticulate; composed of a single joint, as the antennæ or palpi of certain insects.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.
Etymologies
- ex- + articulate (Wiktionary)
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