fracture

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fracture[1,noun] fracture[2,transitive verb] avulsion fracture Colles' fracture compound fracture compression fracture depressed fracture finger fracture freeze fracture greenstick fracture hairline fracture impaction fracture Monteggia fracture pathological fracture Pott's fracture simple fracture Smith fracture sprain fracture stress fracture

Main Entry: ¹frac·ture
Pronunciation: frak-chr, -shr
Function: noun
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>
[fracture illustration]