Fractures Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Stress fractures | caused by force or torsion during a sport or activity. |
| Pathologic fractures | caused by a disease process like osteoporosis. |
| Some fractures: | are categorized by how the bone breaks. |
| No matter the cause of fracture, if the bone heals without treatment it may show: | malunion or malalignment. |
| Open Fracture | open fracture does tear through the skin. |
| Closed Fracture | closed fracture does not tear through the skin |
| Nondisplaced fracture | nondisplaced fracture remains in normal anatomical alignment |
| Displaced Fracture | displaced fracture moves out of normal anatomical alignment. |
| Colles' | distal radius broken by falling onto an outstretched hand |
| Comminuted | Bone is crushed into several small pieces |
| Compression | vertebrae are compressed together when a person falls onto buttocks or collapses on itself |
| Depressed | cranium is fractured inwards to the brain |
| Greenstick | bone is broken on one side; occurs in children due to flexible cartilage |
| Hairline | very thin fracture line with the pieces still together; difficult to detect |
| Oblique | broken in an oblique angle |
| Spiral | broken in a spiral manner with a twisting force |
| Transverse | broken in a transverse plan perpendicular to its long axis |
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