luxation

NOUN
  1. displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ
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  • Labral tears typically are the result of some underlying traumatic event such as hip subluxation or dislocation in contact athletes, or due to underlying bony abnormalities in which a "out-of-round" femoral head ( "cam lesion") or over-covered socket ( "rim lesion") pinch and damage the labrum when the hip is certain positions during athletic activities. New Treatments for Hip Pain
  • Shar-pei are subject to hip and elbow dysplasia and patellar luxation, in which the knee cap slips in and out of position.
  • The attenuation of the body is to be made proportionate to the magnitude of the luxation, for one luxation is to be a small, and another to a great extent. On Fractures
  • There's 'subluxation' in his vertebrae, which sometimes disables him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plain radiographs of the cervical spine in flexion and extension will allow recognition of atlantoaxial subluxation and subaxial subluxation.
  • Lusk [42] cites a case of a mule which had suffered femoral luxation. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • subluxation" for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or "health maintenance," they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable. FriendFeed - georgeh
  • If this maneuver causes reproduction of a disabling symptom, the patient may have a medial patellar subluxation, in which the patella is tracking from medial in extension laterally into the trochlea on knee flexion.
  • -- Two forms of true patellar luxation in the horse may be considered; one which is due to the patella becoming fixed upon the internal trochlear rim of the femur and the other when the patella slips over the outer rim of the trochlea. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • It may be particularly useful in the pediatric population for diagnosis of hip joint subluxation and dislocation.
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