English-Swedish translations for dislocation

• dislokation en
• luksation
• luxation en
• urledvridning en

Definition of dislocation

• The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced
• The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced
• A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries. For example, the sentence, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See

Related words

• atlanto-occipital dislocation
• left dislocation
• right dislocation
• joint dislocation
• ankle dislocation