disarticulation
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“Writing gives us the tools to articulate the mute disarticulation we face on a daily basis,” she reminds us.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020
In October, at Seattle Children’s, the lower part of Radhika’s left leg was amputated in a procedure called a knee disarticulation.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2019
Also on the increase are patients who've required "hip disarticulation" - the removal of the entire thigh bone, which makes fitting and using a prosthesis more difficult.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2011
Patellar disarticulation may be more practically considered as momentary and fixed, regardless of the position taken by the patella.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
Early division of flexor tendons renders disarticulation easy.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph