disarticulation

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“Writing gives us the tools to articulate the mute disarticulation we face on a daily basis,” she reminds us.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020

In October, at Seattle Children’s, the lower part of Radhika’s left leg was amputated in a procedure called a knee disarticulation.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2019

Also on the increase are patients who've required "hip disarticulation" - the removal of the entire thigh bone, which makes fitting and using a prosthesis more difficult.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2011

Amputation at Elbow-Joint.—In cases where it is found impossible to save any portion of the fore-arm, disarticulation at the elbow-joint may be easily performed.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Width of the capitulum before disarticulation, probably was about 1/10th of an inch.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles