Sentence examples for greenstick fracture from inspiring English sources
noun
An incomplete fracture of a long bone in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent
He could not or would not get his agile body close enough to the ground to risk a greenstick fracture of his wrist on the season-ending hit in Baltimore.
An incomplete, or greenstick, fracture occurs when the bone cracks and bends but does not completely break; when the bone does break into separate pieces, the condition is called a complete fracture.
A buckle or greenstick fracture with acceptable angulation.
A buckle or greenstick fracture with borderline angulation or complete fracture with minor angulation or displacement.
A buckle or greenstick fracture with unacceptable angulation or complete fractures with little angulation or displacement.
The paper analyses the greenstick fracture mode on anisotropic beams subjected to flexural loading.
Angular deformation of long bones in children therefore often results in incomplete, or "greenstick," fractures.
But he also observed more compressive fractures, as well as so-called greenstick fractures, in which a bone cracks only on one side, much like what happens when a living tree branch breaks.
The age range of greenstick fractures was 2 15 years, with 66.6% being 7 12 years old.
(X-rays showed six greenstick fractures treated conservatively and one antebrachial fracture treated by closed reduction at the operating theater).
All of the fractures in question were, incorrectly, assumed to be greenstick fractures by the study physician.
