exarticulation

English

Etymology

ex- +‎ articulation

Noun

exarticulation (plural exarticulations)

1. Luxation; the dislocation of a joint
   • 1711, Christian Heinrich Erndl, The Relation of a Journey Into England and Holland, in the Years, 1706, and 1707, page 70:

     And altho' it is a common Opinion, that Patients think the Pain and Loss of Motion proceeds from the Exarticulation or Luxation of the Thigh.Bone, from its Union with the Huckle-Bone, yet that is a false Notion, and impossible that the Articulation can suffer a Luxation, by Reason of the Thickness and Strength of the Ligaments and Circumjacent Tendons.

   • 1838 January, February, March, “Repertoire Annuel et Universel de Clinique Medico-Cirurgicale, 1837: Spontanious Luxations. Employment of the actual Cutery”, in The Transylvania Journal of Medicine, and the Associate Sciences, volume 11, page 120:

     In this disorganization both the surrounding soft and hard parts are involved, and in consequence of the tumefaction and caries, there is produced at the same time exarticulation or spontaneous luxation which is invariably the effect of it.

   • 1852, The North American Homœopathic Journal - Volume 2, page 425:

     It was a case of exarticulation, or compound luxation of the os-innominatum and sacrum, the exarticulation extending about half way down the bone, and the fracture from thence irregularly to the greater sacro-ischiatic notch.

   • 1890, John Bingham Roberts, A Manual of Modern Surgery, page 491:

     If this rule is neglected there is grat danger of recurrence or of the establishment of habitual exarticulation, subluxation, or a snapping sound during eating.

2. (surgery) The action, or the result of exarticulating
   • 1865, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - Volume 50, page 232:

     Three cases were then related in which amputation at the middle of the thigh had been followed by osteomyelitis in the stump, but in which cures had been obtained without exarticulation.

   • 1867, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, page 452:

     The operation of exarticulation presents the following advantages over amputation performed in the continuity of the diseased bure in cases of osteo-myelitis:

   • 1938, Ernst Albert Pohle, Clinical Roentgen Therapy, page 590:

     Even after early amputation and exarticulation one soon sees recurrence and lung metastases.