Definitions
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- adjective
Partially dislocated , as of a joint.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The jaw-bone is often slightly displaced (subluxated?), and is restored again; it is dislocated but rarely, especially in gaping; in fact, the bone is never dislocated unless it slips while the mouth is opened wide.
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Finally, for some children, chiropractic adjustments of subluxated misaligned vertebrae may be the answer to bedwetting.
Gentle Healing for Baby and Child Andrea Candee 2000
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It is obvious that magnetic treatment will not remove pain permanently if the latter is due to irritation caused by a subluxated bone or by some foreign body or by local accumulation of morbid matter and poisons in any part or organ.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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These differ from chiropractic thrusts in that they aim not at adjusting subluxated vertebrae but at stretching definite strands of shrunken connective tissue.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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By the time we manifest symptoms, we've probably been subluxated for years.
Chicago Reader 2010
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One of the Kenyans comes in first, as expected, but not the subluxated one.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Now that Lincoln's patient's spine is not subluxated, she can have improved function of the tissues, organs and systems of the body; increased physical, mental and social well-being; and a better expression of life and health.
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"Paraplegia; retinal detachement; SLE (Lupus); foreign body in vitreous; subluxated lens; chronic severe febrile anemia; fever (s) of unknown origin (FUO); traumatic macular hole; psychomotor retardation; anemia; suspected abdominal abnormal vascular pressure; suspected chronic intestinal disease; psedoarthrosis (non-union of fractured bones) - arms, hand; infected plate - hip; deformation of cornea; recurrent dislocation of shoulder; lumbar discopathy; opacity of vitreous; (and) malformation of urinary tract."
Indybay newswire 2010
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"Paraplegia; retinal detachement; SLE (Lupus); foreign body in vitreous; subluxated lens; chronic severe febrile anemia; fever (s) of unknown origin (FUO); traumatic macular hole; psychomotor retardation; anemia; suspected abdominal abnormal vascular pressure; suspected chronic intestinal disease; psedoarthrosis (non-union of fractured bones) - arms, hand; infected plate - hip; deformation of cornea; recurrent dislocation of shoulder; lumbar discopathy; opacity of vitreous; (and) malformation of urinary tract."
WarIsACrime.org 2010
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