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Fractures matching
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Closed/Simple | Bone breaks beneath skin. |
| Open/compound | Bone breaks and sticks out through skin. |
| Greenstick | Incomplete fracture where the bone is bent. Seen most in kids. |
| comminuted | bone fractures into many peices. |
| impacted | bones ends are driven into each other. |
| complete | bone snaps clean off |
| incomplete | the bone fractures but doesn't break completely |
| Stable | Aligned and nondisplaced |
| Unstable | Out of alignment displaced |
| Sprain | ligament |
| Strain | Muscle or tendon stretching |
| depressed | bone forced inward |
| compressed | bone is crushed |
| Articulation | surface of joint |
| extracapsular | near joint but not in joing capsule |
| intracapsular | within joint capsule |
| avulsed | bone pulls away from tissue |
| spiral | spiral from tugging child abuse |
| oblique | 45 degree break |