disarticulate
verbUK /dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/
Etymology From dis- + articulate.
1
To disjoint.
- I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
2
To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.
- Derived terms
- disarticulator
- Related terms
- disarticulation, inarticulate, unarticulate, unarticulated