dislocate

dislocate

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ locate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/

Verb

dislocate (third-person singular simple present dislocates, present participle dislocating, simple past and past participle dislocated)

1. To put something out of its usual place.

   Synonym: displace

2. (medicine) To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.
   • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."‎, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

     Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

Related terms

• dislocation

Translations

to put something out of its usual place

Bulgarian: измествам (bg) (izmestvam), премествам (bg) (premestvam) Chinese: Mandarin: 弄亂／弄乱 (zh) (nòngluàn) Spanish: desencajar (es) Swedish: flytta (sv), undantränga (sv), tränga (sv) undan

to dislodge a bone

Bulgarian: изкълчвам (bg) (izkǎlčvam) Catalan: dislocar (ca), luxar (ca), desconjuntar (ca), desencaixar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 脫臼／脱臼 (zh) (tuōjiù) Czech: vykloubit Dutch: ontwrichten (nl) French: disloquer (fr), luxer (fr), déboîter (fr) Galician: dislocar German: auskugeln, ausrenken (de), verrenken (de), dislozieren (de) Hungarian: kificamít (hu) Italian: slogare (it), lussare Japanese: 脫臼する (だっきゅうする, dakkyū suru) Kazakh: буынын шығару (buynyn şyğaru), мерт қылу (mert qylu), мертіктіру (mertıktıru) Latin: luxō Polish: zwichnąć (pl) pf Portuguese: deslocar (pt) Romanian: disloca (ro) Russian: выви́хивать (ru) impf (vyvíxivatʹ), вы́вихнуть (ru) pf (vývixnutʹ) Slovene: izpahniti Spanish: dislocar (es) Tagalog: malinsad

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Italian

Verb

dislocate

1. inflection of dislocare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

dislocate f pl

1. feminine plural of dislocato

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• decastilo