Definition of "luxating" []

• Present participle of luxate. (verb)

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• "Although health complications are not so common in the miniature Pomeranian, they may still suffer from few complications such as luxating patella."
• "All of the adult breeding pugs had luxating patellas, a congenital deformity likely to be passed along to their puppies where the kneecap dislocates or moves out of its normal location, which can be very painful and is expensive to treat."
• "The dislocated head does not always preserve the original position in which the luxating force places it, but by means of an abduction, flexion, &c., which subsequently follows, is forced into a new position."