disarticulating

Verb

disarticulate (third-person singular simple present disarticulates, present participle disarticulating, simple past and past participle disarticulated)

1. (transitive) To disjoint.
   • I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239
2. (transitive) To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.