Definition of Fractured

1. Adjective. (not comparable) Broken into sharp pieces. ¹

2. Adjective. Split into groups which disagree. ¹

3. Verb. (past of fracture) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fractured

1. fracture [v] - See also: fracture

Medical Definition of Fractured

1. A break in the cortex of bone. The act of breaking a bone. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fractured

fractiousness
fractiousnesses
fractogram
fractographic
fractographical
fractography
fracts
fractur
fractural
fracture
fracture bed
fracture by contrecoup
fracture dislocation
fracture fixation
fracture healing
fractured
fracturer
fracturers
fractures
fracturing
fracturs
fractus
fradicin
frae
fraena
fraenula
fraenulum
fraenum
fraenums
frag

Literary usage of Fractured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Ъ. One fractured. Not excessive. The following verdicts for the fracturing of one wrist have been held not to warrant disturbance by the courts upon the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"Temporal ami nasal bones fractured, and right eye destroyed. ... Gunshot Wound of Right Eye; Anterior Cranial Fossa Fractured; Recovery. ..."

3. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"My researches were made in the leg-bones of dogs, cats, and rabbits, which I fractured designedly while the animals were kept under anaesthesia. ..."

4. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"A ladder vein is a fractured zone in which there are cross fractures more or less regularly spaced. The type is not common and generally is found in dikes ..."

5. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"A ladder vein is a fractured zone in which there are cross fractures more or less regularly spaced. The type is not common and generally is found in dikes ..."

6. A manual of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1874)
"In a case of fractured skull leading to death from inflammation of the ... The orbitar plate of the frontal bone is very thin, and it may be fractured by a ..."

7. Fluid Flow Through Faults and Fractures in Argillaceous Formations by Nuclear Energy Agency (1998)
"Transport in groundwater in fractured claystone can be simulated using a model called a "brush model". The "brush handle" is discretized by 2-D finite ..."

8. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"1 fractured skull. 5 compound fracture of finger. 3 fractured metacarpal bones. 12 fractured arms. 10 fractured clavicles. 1 fractured tibia. ..."

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