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

If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible.

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

As a matter of fact, in the horse, patellar luxation is the one frequent affection of this kind.

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

Where extreme luxation is present in both stifles, the prognosis is unfavorable.

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

Fragments of the veil of the saintess Coleta, and the use of her well-worn cloak, immediately cured a terrible luxation, and a cataleptic patient was restored to sanity by drinking from her cup.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton