dislocate
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- To put something out of its usual place.
- Synonym: displace
- (medicine) To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."[1], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
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Translations
to put something out of its usual place
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to dislodge a bone
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Anagrams
Italian
Verb
dislocate
- second-person plural present indicative of dislocare
- second-person plural imperative of dislocare
- feminine plural of dislocato