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The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The luxation was downward and forward, and the strong, nervous reaction of the muscles had pulled the head of the bone deep into my armpit.

From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall

When luxation does occur, irreparable injury is usually done.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

Fragments of the veil of the saintess Coleta, and the use of her well-worn cloak, immediately cured a terrible luxation, and a cataleptic patient was restored to sanity by drinking from her cup.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton

Etiology and Occurrence.—This, the most common luxation met with in the equine subject, has been described by writers as existing in many forms.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor