fracture

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See also: fracturé

English

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Fracture of an aluminum crank arm of a bicycle, where Bright= brittle fracture, Dark= fatigue fracture.
Compare healthy bone with different types of fractures:
   (a) closed fracture
   (b) open fracture
   (c) transverse fracture
   (d) spiral fracture
   (e) comminuted fracture
   (f) impacted fracture
   (g) greenstick fracture
   (h) oblique fracture

Etymology

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From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (a breach, fracture, cleft), from frangere (to break), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

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Noun

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fracture (plural fractures)

  1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
  2. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
  3. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

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Verb

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fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
  2. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
    • 2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up:
      “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fractūra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

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Noun

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fracture f (plural fractures)

  1. fracture

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  • Romanian: fractură

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Latin

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Participle

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frāctūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of frāctūrus

Portuguese

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Verb

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fracture

  1. inflection of fracturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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fracture

  1. inflection of fracturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative