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DIASTASIS
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Irregular inflected form: diastases
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("diastasis" is a kind of...):
dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))
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