A fracture where there is some other injury (e.g. a flesh wound not communicating with the fracture, a dislocation, or a rupture of a large blood vessel).

(mechanics, material science) type of fracture with plastic deformation and ductile rupture

(mechanics, material science) type of fracture with plastic deformation

(medicine) Synonym of Pott's fracture

(medicine, archaic) Any of a variety of bimalleolar ankle fractures, caused by a combined abduction external rotation from an eversion force.

(medicine) A fracture of a bone where one or more bone fragments penetrate the skin, forming an open wound.

plural of open fracture

plural of oblique fracture

(medicine, pathology) A type of bone fracture that breaks diagonally across the width of the bone and along the longitudinal axis of the bone.

(medicine) A fracture of the distal third of the humerus resulting in entrapment of the radial nerve.