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A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. Dana.

A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity. Knight.

Situation; position; location. The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain Prior.

Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.

An incomplete or partial dislocation.

peration; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

rtly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based on the location of the thing named.

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.

val of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.