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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| closed | a bone is broken,but the skin is not broken |
| open | a fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin, or when a wound extends to the site of the fracture |
| displaced | the fractured bone parts are out of alignment |
| complete | a bone is broken into at least two fragments |
| incomplete | the fracture does not extend completely across the bone: can be hairline |
| comminuted | the bone breaks into several pieces, usually two major pieces and several smaller pieces |
| transverse | the fracture is at right angles to the long axis of the bone |
| impacted | a fracture in which one bone fragment is driven into the other, with resulting shortening of a limb |
| spiral | fracture spirals round the long axis of the bone |
| oblique | diagonal fracture across the long axis of the bone |
| linear | fracture runs parallel to the long axis of the bone |
| greenstick | partial fracture; one side breaks and the other side bends |
| pathologic | fracture occurs in an area of bone weakened by disease {such as cancer} |
| compression | fracture occurs in a vertebra from trauma or pathology leading to the vertebra being crushed |
Created by:
jennifer werly
Popular Osteopathic Principl sets