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12 Cards in this Set
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Closed Fracture |
No open skin, simple fracture |
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Colles' fracture |
Common type of wrist fracture |
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Comminuted fracture |
Bone fracture in which bone is shattered, or crushed into many small fragments |
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Compound Fracture |
Skin has been broken through to the fracture, called an open fracture |
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Compression fracture |
Loss of height of vertebral body, possible trauma, common of older people especially women |
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fracture |
broken bone |
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Greenstick Fracture |
Incomplete break, one side of the bone is broken , the other side is bent, commonly found in children |
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Impacted Fracture |
Bone fragments are pushed onto each other |
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Oblique |
Fracture at an angle to the bone |
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Spiral fracture |
fracture line spirals around the shaft of the bone |
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stress fracture |
slight fracture caused by repetitive low-impact forces, such as running |
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transverse fracture |
complete fracture that is straight across the bone at right angles |
