GREENSTICK FRACTURE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("greenstick fracture" is a kind of...):

incomplete fracture (fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone)

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