disarticulate

verb
/dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/UK

Etymology

From dis- + articulate.

  1. borrowed from articulātus
  2. prefixed as disarticulate — “dis + articulate

Definitions

  1. To disjoint.

    • 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. To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.

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