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the joint's dramatic exit from the role it was born to play
means The state or act of something being moved out of its proper place — a bone slipping from its joint, a population uprooted, or a system thrown out of order.
from From Latin 'dis-' (apart, away) plus 'locare' (to place, set) — itself from 'locus,' a place. So at its core the word simply means 'placed apart.' It entered English through Medieval Latin 'dislocatio,' first earning its keep in the world of medicine and surgery for bones knocked out of their sockets, before stretching to describe anything wrenched from where it belongs.
- common spot
- shoulders dislocate more than any other joint
- crystal flaw
- metals deform via line defects also called dislocations
- audible
- a popping sound often accompanies the pop-out
- relocation risk
- first dislocation makes future ones far likelier
- speed matters
- faster relocation means less swelling and pain
for instance
san francisco 1906 earthquake — magnitude 7.9 fault dislocation offset ground 20 feet horizontally along san andreas fault