DISLOCATE Copy link • DISLOCATETo put out of joint, luxare (☞ not eluxare, which has no ancient authority in its favor): extorquere (to dislocate by a wrench; e.g., articulum, Sen.): ejicere (e.g., cervicem, armum): to be dislocated, sua sede or suo loco moveri; or moveri only (Cels.); de suo loco emoveri (to get out of its position, also of the joints of the body); excidere (to fall out of the socket; with or without sua sede; suis sedibus, Cels., 8, 11); loco suo non esse (of the parts that are in that state; Cels., ib.): excessisse (Cels., 8): cf., prolabi, elabi, promoveri, erumpere are used by Cels., chiefly when mentioning the direction in which the dislocation takes place. Dislocated, loco suo motus: dislocated limbs, artus in pravum elapsi (Tac., Hist., 4, 81). Displace, Vid.