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
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
This type of luxation is rarely observed and is usually due to violent strain and abnormal extension of the stifle joint.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Such cases may be styled momentary luxation, whether they are due to a weakened condition of the patellar ligaments or spasmodic contraction of the crural muscles.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Usually, luxation and fracture may be differentiated in that there is no crepitation in luxation and more or less crepitation exists in fracture.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
In temporary luxations, disarticulation is but momentary and spontaneous reposition always results; while a fixed luxation does not reduce spontaneously but remains luxated until reposition is effected by proper manipulation and treatment.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Scapulohumeral arthritis may result then from infections, local or metastatic; from injuries, such as contusions of various kinds; from wounds, which break the surface structure or perforate the joint capsule; or from luxations.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The great use which they make of their simples is for the cure of wounds, fractures, dislocations, luxations, and ruptures.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones
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
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
