Definition of Open fracture
1. Noun. Bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound.
Medical Definition of Open fracture
1. Fracture in which the skin is perforated and there is an open wound down to the fracture. Synonym: compound fracture. (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Open fracture
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1. The Treatment of fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1915)
"At the same time thorough posterior drainage should be provided by a rubber tube
for the cavity left after excision. open fracture of the astragalus and os ..."
2. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"An operation for open fracture of the tibia may be taken as typical. ... In an
open fracture of the femur, where asepsis was evidently unattainable, ..."
3. Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Economic Geology by John Casper Branner, John Flesher Newsom (1900)
"open fracture formed during an earthquake in Arizona. Debris filling such cavities.
Other fractures not included under either of these heads may be produced ..."
4. Abstracts of War Surgery: An Abstract of the War Literature of General by United States Surgeon-General's Office, Surgeon-General's Office, United States (1918)
"SECONDARY SUTURE OF THE WOUND IN CASES OF open fracture.—Depage and Vandervelde.
Bull, et mem. Soc. de chir. dc Paris, 1917, xliii, p. 477. ..."
5. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"It is very desirable and important, but not always possible, to make a correct
prognosis about an open fracture at once. The life or death of the patient ..."
6. A Text-book of Fractures and Dislocations: With Special Reference to Their by Kellogg Speed (1916)
"BONE REPAIR IN open fracture. The process of repair and healing in open fracture may
... It is a clinical delight to obtain an open fracture with a small ..."
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