luxate

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WOTD - 29 December 2008

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From Latin luxō

luxate (third-person singular simple present luxates, present participle luxating, simple past and past participle luxated)

To dislocate
- 1863, Stephen Smith, Hand-book of Surgical Operations^[1], page 97:
  
  If in cases of difficulty you have recourse to this means, luxate downwards as far as half the dorsopalmar diameter, and then vice versa.

to dislocate