luxation
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The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column.'
From Time Magazine Archive
For the bite of a mad dog, pax max, and adimax, were irresistible; and for a fractured arm or a luxation, araries, dandaries, denatas, and matas, would have set at defiance the most experienced chirurgeons.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The deep cotyloid cavity renders disarticulation difficult and luxation does not often take place.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
A dislocation or luxation is a persistent displacement of the opposing ends of the bones forming a joint.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The third and final section, of 35 chapters, deals with the reduction, luxation, and treatment of injured bones, including fracture of the pelvis.
From Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
Treatment.—The treatment of luxations must, of course, be similar to that of fractures.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
A cataplasm of the juice, with rye meal, is good against luxations and ruptures.
From Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
They know that fractures or luxations of the spine are mortal, but not fractures of the skull; and they likewise know, from experience, in what parts of the body wounds prove fatal.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
Because of the large humeral head articulating as it does with a glenoid cavity, scapulohumeral luxations are very rare in the horse.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Dislocations and luxations are interchangeable terms, meaning the separation and displacement of the articulating surfaces of the bones entering into the formation of a joint.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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