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What is a dislocation?

What is a dislocation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
  2. (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
  3. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
  4. (materials) A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
  5. (grammar) A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries. For example, the sentance, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See dislocation.
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Spontaneous mandibular dislocation usually occurs in people with a history of such dislocations.
A plain film of the right calf was negative for fracture, dislocation or radiopaque foreign bodies.
The dislocation is reduced at the hospital in Taos, but there are so many broken bones that I'll need surgery.
If the dislocation is irreducible or unstable after reduction, referral to an orthopedic or hand subspecialist is advised.
With these aristocratic reactionaries, Tocqueville shared a painful sense of dislocation and loss.
Muscle spasm sets in shortly after dislocation, making reduction more difficult.

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