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Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
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Spiral Fracture | S shaped, your body causes it, not outside force | comminuted | 3 or more fragments at the fracture site |
Green Stick | most common in children, the bone splinters and "bends" | countercoup | the fracture occurs on the opposite side of impact |
longitudinal | goes down the length of the bone | blowout | wall of the eye socket is fractured |
depressed | usually in skull or in flat bones (baseball to head) can cause brain damage | evulsion | separation from the attachment place from ligament and bone |
oblique | foot is planted and it twists (if someone sat on your foot and you twisted strongly) | stress | overuse, tiered body, common in runners, only in weight bearing bones |
Transverse | receives a blow directly to the arm | Epiphyseal | aka-growth plate, fracture at the end of a long bone, can stunt your growth |