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compression fracture
noun
Any fracture of a bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as a vertebra) caused by compression
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Percutaneous vertebroplasty by injecting PMMA bone cement into the fractured vertebrae has been widely accepted in treatment of spinal compression fracture.
"It was a compression fracture," Diane Watson, her mother, said.
I snapped my bilateral ligament and had a compression fracture the length of my shin.
Nelson had a compression fracture that required spinal surgery and pins to correct.
He had a compression fracture in one of his vertebrae, which led to his observing rehearsals for a few days.
Soon, his seventh vertebrae fully collapsed, an agonizing compression fracture, due in part to years of bone-density-depleting therapies.
During one episode, he collapsed on the sidewalk and suffered a compression fracture in his spine.
BMC later announced that Stefan Kung, the reigning world individual pursuit champion on the track, had suffered a compression fracture of a vertebrae in the crash.
He later took responsibility for his car making contact with another and triggering the 15-car accident that left Alysha Ruggles with a compression fracture in her back.
"I landed on my chest and my legs flipped over my head," she says – she suffered a compression fracture of the spine and fractured three thoracic vertebrae.
Conway had surgery for multiple fractures in his lower left leg and has a compression fracture in his back.
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