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
The luxation was downward and forward, and the strong, nervous reaction of the muscles had pulled the head of the bone deep into my armpit.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
The fourth is an affection rather of the neck, due to an inflammation of the vertebræ—retropharyngeal abscess—that may be followed by luxation and is complicated by great difficulty of respiration.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
In upward luxation, reduction is effected by attempting further extension of the stifle joint and at the same time the patella is pulled outward, off the internal rim of the trochlea.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
It is not surprising, then, to find that the treatment of fractures and luxations is eminently practical, and, indeed, on any subject that he touches he throws practical light.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
Treatment.—The treatment of luxations must, of course, be similar to that of fractures.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Such a deformity subjects the animal to frequent luxations.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
Dislocations and luxations are interchangeable terms, meaning the separation and displacement of the articulating surfaces of the bones entering into the formation of a joint.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
The great use which they make of their simples is for the cure of wounds, fractures, dislocations, luxations, and ruptures.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones
