premise: The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident
hypothesis: realigned is best characterized as a kind or type of soliton (or soliton wave, solitary wave), defined as '(physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate' .