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disarticulate

[dis-ahr-tik-yuh-layt] / ˌdɪs ɑrˈtɪk jəˌleɪt /




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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013

I was next awakened by the sudden and persistent thought that I must have a flag, and accordingly set to work to disarticulate the frozen legs of my dead dogs.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

"Pray, never mind me at all, gentlemen—I'll listen blandly whilst I disarticulate this beautiful bird."

From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

If, however, the terminal branch of the dorsalis pedis artery be wounded, it may be necessary to disarticulate the first metatarsal to secure it rather than trust to compression to stop the bleeding.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

To a man in my disarticulate situation people don't write except to express the kindness of their hearts.

From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster

Nearby, Haile-Selassie later found the lower jaw, teeth, and disarticulated bones of the hands, feet, and arm of Ardipithecus kadabba, dated to 5.8 million years ago.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

I cleaned and polished fox skulls; disarticulated, dried and kept the wings of roadkill birds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020

Archaeologists found disarticulated skeletal remains from three to four men, 10 to 12 women and at least two children in the tomb.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014

I ordered them through a U.S. company specializing in disarticulated human skeletons, and a week later I received a container with 206 pieces of the human body.

From Salon ● May 31, 2012

Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

If he didn’t do the film, somebody else would eventually, disarticulating it with the sort of hyperbole he hated and which he made such an effort to avoid in his own accounts.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020

Regarding the method of disarticulating at the astragalo-calcaneal joint, and removing all the foot except the astragalus, no detail need be given.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

Spikelets are unilateral, sessile, crowded, biseriate on a slender rachis with four to six glumes and 1 to 3-flowered; the rachilla is produced and disarticulating above the empty glumes.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari


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