disarticulate
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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
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 Joseph Bell
Tendrils which have caught nothing soon shrink and wither; but in some species of Bignonia they disarticulate and fall off like leaves in autumn.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
If, however, the terminal branch of the dorsalis pedis artery be wounded, it may be necessary to disarticulate the first metatarsal to secure it rather than trust to compression to stop the bleeding.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
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 Joseph Bell
Nearby, Haile-Selassie later found the lower jaw, teeth, and disarticulated bones of the hands, feet, and arm of Ardipithecus kadabba, dated to 5.8 million years ago.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
The hands, along with numerous disarticulated fingers, were most likely buried during Egypt’s 15th dynasty, from 1640 B.C. to 1530 B.C.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
Westernness is a thorny subject and I don’t want to get into too deeply here precisely because it has become vague, a disarticulated and somewhat embarrassing category.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2022
The dinosaur’s bones were disarticulated, jumbled, and even broken into fragments.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2019
Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
If he didn’t do the film, somebody else would eventually, disarticulating it with the sort of hyperbole he hated and which he made such an effort to avoid in his own accounts.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020
Regarding the method of disarticulating at the astragalo-calcaneal joint, and removing all the foot except the astragalus, no detail need be given.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Spikelets are unilateral, sessile, crowded, biseriate on a slender rachis with four to six glumes and 1 to 3-flowered; the rachilla is produced and disarticulating above the empty glumes.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
