Verb

(head)

(dislocate)

Verb

to put something out of its usual place

(medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint

* {{quote-book

, year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}

* Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.

Verb

(head)

(disjoint)

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Verb

(en verb)

To render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.

to disjoint''' limbs; to '''disjoint''' bones; to '''disjoint poultry by carving

* Prior

Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, / But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?

* Longfellow

Some half-ruined wall / Disjointed and about to fall.

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.

a disjointed speech

To fall into pieces.

(Shakespeare)