ˌde-articuˈlation Anat.
[ad. med.L. dearticulātio, used to translate διάρθρωσις in Aristotle and Galen.]
a. Division by joints; b. ‘Articulation admitting of movement in several directions; = diarthrosis’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); c. Distinct articulation (of the voice).
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 333 A dearticulation of the parts. 1634 T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. vi. xlii. (1678) 165 De-articulation is a composition of the bones with a manifest and visible motion. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 144 There would be much of the voice lost in dearticulation. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶98 The dearticulation of the operations of nature. |