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fracture

19 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) fracture (noun)
  2. 2) fracture (transitive verb)
  3. avulsion fracture (noun)
  4. Colles' fracture (noun)
  5. compound fracture (noun)
  6. compression fracture (noun)
  7. depressed fracture (noun)
  8. finger fracture (noun)
  9. freeze fracture (noun)
  10. greenstick fracture (noun)
  11. hairline fracture (noun)
  12. impaction fracture (noun)
  13. Monteggia fracture (noun)
  14. pathological fracture (noun)
  15. Pott's fracture (noun)
  16. simple fracture (noun)
  17. Smith fracture (noun)
  18. sprain fracture (noun)
  19. stress fracture (noun)

1frac·ture

noun \ˈfrak-chər, -shər\

Definition of FRACTURE

1
: the act or process of breaking or the state of being broken; specifically : the breaking of hard tissue (as bone)—see pott's fracture
2
: the rupture (as by tearing) of soft tissue <kidney fracture>

Illustration of FRACTURE

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