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

In upward luxation, then, the leg is extended as if too long, but the phalanges may be in a state of moderate flexion.

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

As a rule, the reduction of this form of luxation is not difficult.

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

For the bite of a mad dog, pax max, and adimax, were irresistible; and for a fractured arm or a luxation, araries, dandaries, denatas, and matas, would have set at defiance the most experienced chirurgeons.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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