(n.) One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present situation, the medical infrastructure is unable to replace the benefits of these bonesetters, neither in quality--with the exception of the main centres-nor, above all, in quantity.
Disjointed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Disjoint
(a.) Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was revealed that sucrose induces the appearance of negative disjointing pressure.
(2) The results of a series of benchmarking studies based upon artificial statistical pattern recognition tasks indicate that the proposed architecture performs significantly better than conventional feedforward classifier networks when the decision regions are disjoint.
(3) They fire and fire and then stop and if they’re going off to work – there’s no organisation, no leaders, no battle command, it’s all disjointed.” Which settlement was this in?
(4) Admittedly, Greece look a poor, disjointed side, but this was still a performance to bring back memories of South Korea's wild and eccentric run to the semi-finals, when they co‑hosted the tournament in 2002.
(5) Refugees are streaming into Slovenia , diverted overnight by the closure of Hungary’s border with Croatia, in the latest demonstration of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its borders.
(6) He indirectly signalled that Europe's attempts to get to grips with the crisis over the past 18 months had been disjointed, indecisive, and unproductive.
(7) A parallel is drawn with dreams, which consist of disjointed and distorted information encoded during waking hours.
(8) Three not completely disjoint abstract functions of the nervous system, namely pattern formation, pattern recognition and action, can be treated in a unified conceptual framework.
(9) The official booked two home players, Willian and Diego Costa, for simulation during a disjointed contest but opted against showing Cahill, already booked for a bad foul on Sone Aluko, a second yellow card after he tumbled between Tom Huddlestone and David Meyler apparently in search of a penalty.
(10) But marketing and communications experts in Oregon who have closely followed the standoff, which has caused a major backlash in the nearby town of Burns , said the militia’s PR tactics were disjointed and chaotic and were only breeding further resentment from the people they purport to be helping.
(11) The 33-year-old’s disjointed CV stands out as an extreme example of a growing section of Spanish society made up of those ousted from the workforce during the economic crisis and now struggling to land anything but precarious short-term contracts.
(12) This year, money has been spent and spirits were high at kick-off, yet a disjointed performance against Crystal Palace headed towards another situation where the new season curtain didn’t so much swish open as collapse unceremoniously as the game slunk into stoppage time all square.
(13) I have to assume that an outside entity was feeding her lines, as it is the only explanation for her shambolic, disjointed lunacy.
(14) United's disjointed evening was summed up near the end when the misfiring Danny Welbeck produced a shot that wobbled past Narit Taweekul's right post as the striker fell over.
(15) Its first section appears to take place on a cruise ship: various disjointed sequences follow one another; then we shift to a family-owned petrol station somewhere in France.
(16) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
(17) In her last major political appearance in the state, in January last year, Palin gave a rambling, disjointed address to a presidential cattle call organized by Iowa congressman Steve King.
(18) The disjoint pattern of activations in extravisual brain regions during selective- and divided-attention conditions also suggests that preceptual judgements involve different neural systems, depending on attentional strategies.
(19) The online experience of the green deal, which has been criticised for being disjointed, would shortly be overhauled and improved, he said.
(20) This attitude of trying to please everyone can result in a disjointed film experience to those not accustomed to the Bollywood staple of "masala" films.