LUXATION

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 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

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)

Derivation:

luxate (move out of position)