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Disarticulate

//dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To disjoint. transitive

    "I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back."

  2. 2
    separate at the joints wordnet
  3. 3
    To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone. transitive

Etymology

From dis- + articulate.

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