disarticulate
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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
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
To a man in my disarticulate situation people don't write except to express the kindness of their hearts.
From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
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
I was next awakened by the sudden and persistent thought that I must have a flag, and accordingly set to work to disarticulate the frozen legs of my dead dogs.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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
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
"When you say cobalt-free, you're saying 'DRC, you're going to be disarticulated from the global supply chain," Riofrancos went on.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2021
I cleaned and polished fox skulls; disarticulated, dried and kept the wings of roadkill birds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
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
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
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
