disarticulate
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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
In very many grasses the rachis is continuous, but in a few cases it consists of internodes or joints which disarticulate at maturity.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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
Retaining Mr. Syme's incisions in their integrity, some operators prefer not to disarticulate the foot, but remove it by sawing through the tibia and fibula at once, while still in connection with the foot.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Whenever it is possible, cut the bone through its continuity rather than disarticulate.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
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
