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LUXATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does luxation mean?

• LUXATION (noun)
The noun LUXATION has 1 sense:

1. displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ

Familiarity information: LUXATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LUXATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("luxation" is a kind of...):

displacement; shift (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "luxation"):

subluxation (partial displacement of a joint or organ)

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