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UK
/dɪsləʊkˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /dɪˈsɫoʊˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˈsɫoʊˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
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the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
the social dislocations resulting from government policies - a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
How To Use dislocation In A Sentence
- Family dislocation has obvious social and emotional costs, especially for the children who lose a parent and often a source of income.
- Voting for the monorail system, terming it as a ‘superior alternative’, the letter added that its advantages were that it did not include any demolition and dislocation of existing traffic even during the construction stages.
- A fracture dislocation occurs across a joint and involves abnormal displacement of the joint surfaces from one another.
- It focuses on short-term dislocations and uncontrollable cyclical changes, producing constant disappointment and encouraging inappropriate transactional responses. American Chronicle
- Basically the blood supply to the bone is cut off or depleted during dislocation and if this occurs for long enough the bone dies.
- Overlap of bone margins may indicate a dislocation, and a second view should confirm this.
- Another cause of jaw joint problems is previous jaw injuries, such as dislocation.
- Zachriel: Rapid climate change will result in agricultural failure, flooding of highly populated coastal areas, dislocation, disease, migration, mass extinctions, political instability and human suffering. About: Blinded by Science
- Dislocation of the atlo-axoid articulation (_os juguli_) he tells us threatens speedy death. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
- Dislocation also occurred when Buddhist sutras and commentaries were cut up, dispersed, and sometimes reformatted in calligraphy model books (tekagami).
