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• green|stick fracture — «GREEN STIHK», a fracture in which the bone is bent and only partly broken …   Useful english dictionary

• Fracture, greenstick — A fracture in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent (like a green stick). A fracture is a break in the bone or cartilage. It usually is a result of trauma but can be due to an acquired disease of bone such as osteoporosis or… …   Medical dictionary

• Greenstick fracture — A fracture in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent (like a green stick). A fracture is a break in the bone or cartilage. It usually is a result of trauma but can be due to an acquired disease of bone such as osteoporosis or… …   Medical dictionary

• Greenstick fracture — Almost exclusively occurs during infancy and childhood.The bending of a bone with incomplete fracture, involving the convex side only. Green stick fractures are characterized by a break in the bone which partially extends across and then along… …   Wikipedia

• Chalkstick fracture — Chalkstick fractures are fractures, typically of long bones, in which the fracture is transverse to the long axis of the bone, like a broken stick of chalk. A healthy long bone typically breaks like a hard woody stick as the collagen in the… …   Wikipedia

• Child bone fracture — A child bone fracture is a medical condition in which a bone of a child (a person younger than the age of 18) is cracked or broken.[1] About 15% of all injuries in children are fracture injuries.[2] Bone fractures in children are different than… …   Wikipedia

• simple fracture — noun an uncomplicated fracture in which the broken bones to not pierce the skin • Syn: ↑closed fracture • Hypernyms: ↑fracture, ↑break * * * noun, pl ⋯ tures [count] medical : a break in a bone in which no parts stick out through the skin compare …   Useful english dictionary

• greenstick fracture — green′stick frac′ture [[t]ˈgrinˌstɪk[/t]] n. pat an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is intact • Etymology: 1880–85 …   From formal English to slang

• greenstickfracture — green·stick fracture (grēnʹstĭk ) n. A partial bone fracture, usually occurring in children, in which the bone is bent but only broken on one side. * * * …   Universalium

• green — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass, emeralds, etc. 2 a covered with leaves or grass. b mild and without snow (a green Christmas). 3 (of fruit etc. or wood) unripe or unseasoned. 4 not… …   Useful english dictionary

• Green — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass, emeralds, etc. 2 a covered with leaves or grass. b mild and without snow (a green Christmas). 3 (of fruit etc. or wood) unripe or unseasoned. 4 not… …   Useful english dictionary