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Dislocation

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

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Senses

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the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

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an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
breakdowndisruption
plural
Dislocations
possessive
Dislocation's
pluralpossessive
Dislocations'