Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 28, 2012

luxate \LUHK-seyt\, verb: To put out of joint; dislocate.

When I began to luxate the tooth I heard a crack. -- Nathan Jorgenson, "A Crooked Number"

But at the same time he thinks, that the reduced bone will not remain in it's [sic] place, but luxate itself again, and fall back into the new-formed articulation, which it has formed to itself. - Royal Society of London, "The Philosophical Transactions and Collections"

Luxate is not related to any word for "light." Rather, it is from the Greek word for "oblique," which was loxós.

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