The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disarticulate \Dis`ar*tic"u*late\, v. t. To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c.; see dis- + articulate (adj.).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to disjoint 2 to amputate a limb at a joint without cutting the bone
WordNet
v. separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" [syn: disjoint]
Usage examples of "disarticulate".
He rummaged through the heap of bones and driftwood piled against the wall, then went around to her midden on the other side of it and searched through the overgrown brush to find disarticulated bones, skulls, and antler among the refuse.
Back by the door lies a jumble of disarticulated bones, steaming slightly, as though the soul of the person who just inhabited that body is trying to form itself into a ghostly specter.
Some time before puberty there is for most of us a transition in how we perceive and remember the world, a transition which means that our adult memories are strangely disarticulated from our childhood ones.
Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms.
Using curved scissors I speedily disarticulated the remains of the pedal bone from the second phalanx and held it up.
She disarticulated the legs, then started on the delicate carapace, which split along three great circles and opened up like a peeled orange.
Savage, disarticulated its way through until it reached the area of the dynadrive engines and the warp core.
If she put all the food on the counter, then disarticulated the limbs, the whole body should fit nicely, with the head in the freezer.
The dinosaurs were stored unmounted, stacked disarticulated on massive steel shelves.
In such disarticulated and prosthetic flesh, there can be no hierarchy of the organs or the senses, no privileging of sight over touch or male over female, of cocks over cunts or cocks over eyes.
The chainmail penetrated through the body of the Savage, disarticulated its way through until it reached the area of the dynadrive engines and the warp core.
At one point she had considered disarticulating at the hip in the belief that this might give a better chance of getting ahead of the spreading malignancy from the knee.
In a climate like Virginia's, it generally takes at least a year of being exposed to the elements before a body is fully skeletonized, or reduced to disarticulated bones.
Skulls and rib cages, the long bones of legs and arms, perforated pelvic basins, disarticulated small bones that had been the framework of hands, feet, and vertebral columns.