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

Etiology and Occurrence.—Uncomplicated femoral luxation is of less frequent occurrence in the horse than in the other domestic animals.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

The fourth is an affection rather of the neck, due to an inflammation of the vertebræ—retropharyngeal abscess—that may be followed by luxation and is complicated by great difficulty of respiration.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph

Joints having the greater freedom of movement are apt to suffer luxation more frequently.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)