disarticulate

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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013

I saw my body like an empty sack Tossed disarticulate on grated floors.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

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 Bell, Joseph

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 Bell, Joseph

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 Rangachari, K.