(colloquial) A fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.

plural of fracture plane

A fracture of the distal third of the radius with dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint.

A broken bone communicating with a co-existing skin wound.

(medicine) A fracture where the bone only is divided.

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.