Other Definitions
dislocation (enc)
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Dislocation| Noun | 1. | dislocation - an event that results in a displacement or discontinuitybreak, interruption - some abrupt occurrence that interrupts; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" | | | 2. | dislocation - the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London" | | | 3. | dislocation - a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. diastasis - separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone spondylolisthesis - a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | |
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