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Definition of Fracture

1. Verb. Violate or abuse. "This writer really fractures the language"

2. Noun. Breaking of hard tissue such as bone. "The break seems to have been caused by a fall"

3. Verb. Interrupt, break, or destroy. "Fracture the balance of power"

4. Noun. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. "He studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

5. Verb. Break into pieces. "These glasses fracture easily"; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"

6. Noun. The act of cracking something.

7. Verb. Become fractured. "The wooden sticks fracture "; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"

8. Verb. Break (a bone). "She broke her clavicle"

9. Verb. Fracture a bone of. "Did he fracture his foot? "; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"

Definition of Fracture

1. n. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

2. v. t. To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

Definition of Fracture

1. Noun. the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage ¹

2. Noun. (geology) a fault or crack in a rock ¹

3. Verb. to break, or cause something to break ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fracture

1. to break [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES] - See also: break

Medical Definition of Fracture

1. A break or rupture in the cortex of bone. The act of breaking a bone. Origin: L. Fractura, from frangere = to break (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fracture

fractionators fractioned fractioning fractions fractious fractiously fractiousness fractiousnesses fractogram fractographic

fractographical fractography fracts fractur fractural fracture (current term) fracture bed fracture by contrecoup fracture dislocation fracture fixation

fracture healing fractured fracturer fracturers fractures fracturing fracturs fractus fradicin frae

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