open fracture
noun
: a fracture associated with an open wound or break in the skin through which bone often protrudes : compound fracture
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This is called an open fracture and is a sign of a more serious break.
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Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
Once a hole is drilled, high-pressure water mixed with sand is blasted down it to open fractures in the rock.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Paramedics rushed the man, who was suffering from an open fracture to his leg, to a hospital.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
Torro sustained an open fracture of the tibia and fibula with serious bleeding because his binding failed to release as he was being carried in the 15 foot-wide hard slab avalanche.
—Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
Paramedics took the skateboarder to a hospital with open fractures to his lower leg.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
Woods had multiple open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of his right tibia and fibula, the two main bones in the lower leg.
—Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
Broke both bones, an open fracture back in December.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
The woman suffered significant neurological damage considered to be life-threatening and the man suffered an open fracture to his left leg, authorities said.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
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Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
Once a hole is drilled, high-pressure water mixed with sand is blasted down it to open fractures in the rock.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Paramedics rushed the man, who was suffering from an open fracture to his leg, to a hospital.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
Torro sustained an open fracture of the tibia and fibula with serious bleeding because his binding failed to release as he was being carried in the 15 foot-wide hard slab avalanche.
—Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
Paramedics took the skateboarder to a hospital with open fractures to his lower leg.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
Woods had multiple open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of his right tibia and fibula, the two main bones in the lower leg.
—Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
Broke both bones, an open fracture back in December.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
The woman suffered significant neurological damage considered to be life-threatening and the man suffered an open fracture to his left leg, authorities said.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
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“Open fracture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20fracture. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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