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Bone Fractures
Human Anatomy - Bone Growth and Maintenance - Classification of Bone Fractures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avulsion (Abriss) | complete severing of a body part (typically toe or fringer) |
| closed (simple) | bone does not break through skin |
| colles | fracture of the distal end of the lateral forearm bone (radius) |
| comminuted | bone is splintered into several small pieces between the main parts |
| complete | bone is broken into two or more pieces |
| compression | bone is squashed (may occur in vertebra during a fall) |
| depressed | broken part of the bone forms a concavity (as in skull fracture) |
| displaced | fracture bone parts are out of anatomic alignment |
| epiphyseal | epiphysis is seperated from the diaphysis at the epiphyseal plate |
| greenstick | partial fracture; one side of bone breaks, the other side bends |
| hairline | fine crack in which sections of bone remain aligned (common in skull) |
| impacted | one fragment of bone is firmly driven into the other |
| incomplete | partial fracture that extends only partway across bone |
| linear | fracture is parallel to the long axis of the bone |
| oblique | diagonal fracture at an angle between linear and transverse |
| open (compound) | broken ends of the bone protrude through the skin |
| pathologic | weakening of a bone caused by disease processes (e.g. cancer) |
| pott | fracture at the distal end of the tibia, fibula or both |
| spiral | fracture spirals around axis of long bone; results from twisting stress |
| stress | thin fracture due to repeated, stressful impact such as running. (may be difficult to see on x-rays) |
| transverse | fracture at right angle to the long axis of the bone |
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