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Fractures matching
Question | Answer |
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Closed/Simple | Bone breaks beneath skin. |
Open/compound | Bone breaks and sticks out through skin. |
Greenstick | Incomplete fracture where the bone is bent. Seen most in kids. |
comminuted | bone fractures into many peices. |
impacted | bones ends are driven into each other. |
complete | bone snaps clean off |
incomplete | the bone fractures but doesn't break completely |
Stable | Aligned and nondisplaced |
Unstable | Out of alignment displaced |
Sprain | ligament |
Strain | Muscle or tendon stretching |
depressed | bone forced inward |
compressed | bone is crushed |
Articulation | surface of joint |
extracapsular | near joint but not in joing capsule |
intracapsular | within joint capsule |
avulsed | bone pulls away from tissue |
spiral | spiral from tugging child abuse |
oblique | 45 degree break |