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fracture
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Main Entry:
frac·ture
[
frak
-cher
]
/
ˈfræk
tʃər
/
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Part of Speech:
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fracture
Main Entry:
fracture
Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
fracture
Part of Speech:
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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Example Sentences
Hip
fracture
surgery is done to repair a break in the upper part of the thigh bone.
Differences and tensions both drive and
fracture
the movement.
Meanwhile, southern rebel leaders have allowed their movement to
fracture
along ethnic lines.
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Hip
fracture
surgery is done to repair a break in the upper part of the thigh bone.
Differences and tensions both drive and
fracture
the movement.
Meanwhile, southern rebel leaders have allowed their movement to
fracture
along ethnic lines.
The scans revealed a skull
fracture
caused by blunt force trauma.
To recover the heat, the project's operators would have needed to
fracture
the rock and circulate water through it.
In general, include the joint above and below the
fracture
in the splint.
The latest work suggests that smoking robs the bones of their mineral density, making them more likely to
fracture
.
Often follows a fall with
fracture
that needs surgical repair.
Trying to
fracture
society into different groups that cannot easily communicate with each other is counterproductive.
Another way sinkholes can form is if water enlarges a natural
fracture
in a limestone bedrock layer.
Medical science has known for some time that the direction of a bone
fracture
depends on how quickly the bone is compressed.
Fracture
through the transverse process at this level.
The older you are the more likely you are to die from complications of hip
fracture
.
Their society might
fracture
if there's religious pluralism.
The quick pileup overloads the underlying snowpack, which causes a weak layer beneath the slab to
fracture
.
If fracking is defined as a single
fracture
of deep shale, that action might be benign.
He lay there last night in a serious condition, suffering from a depressed
fracture
of the skull.
There are thrust faults, which are usually the strongest in terms of earthquakes when they
fracture
.
But in some cases cats' lungs collapse or their ribs
fracture
due to difficulty breathing.
The organs appeared much clearer, and the skull
fracture
she initially detected was far more severe than she originally thought.
Kwan's stress
fracture
is located in the second toe on her left foot.
Biofuels are, at best, a bandaid on a compound
fracture
.
These shoes help me on my way to my first stress
fracture
.
Unlike conventional geothermal, you now have to find rock which you can also
fracture
.
The head of the girl rested upon a jagged rock, and there was a
fracture
of the skull near the base of the brain.
They then produced a model to estimate pore pressure and
fracture
pressure, and calculated the mud pressure accordingly.
He was arrested nine times, deported once, and suffered bubonic plague and a stress
fracture
.
Death was due to a comminuted
fracture
of the right side of the skull.
Teriparatide is usually recommended for patients with osteoporosis who are at high risk of
fracture
.
Anderson has a
fracture
of the navicular bone, a boat-shaped bone in the wrist.
Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease in which bones become brittle and prone to
fracture
.
People are often able to walk even if a foot bone has been
fracture
d, particularly if it is a chipped bone or a toe
fracture
.
With detail of continental slopes,
fracture
zones, and seamounts.
Researchers speculated that if a
fracture
of the first leg was detected, catastrophe could be averted.
Faced with this stress
fracture
in their funding structures, banks have two obvious ways to respond.
Violent bouncing of a water droplet coated with oil causes the oil layer to move inside and
fracture
into many oily globs.
Now is the winter of our dislocated kneeAnd our broken arm and our separated shoulder and our unstable
fracture
of the fibula.
High pressure water is pumped down the hole to
fracture
the granite along naturally occurring planes of weakness.
The crater rim's instability caused the limestone to
fracture
along the rim, forming the trough.
Moreover, as families mingle and
fracture
over generations, ownership becomes diluted along with the bloodline.
Any further away and their orchestra seems doomed to
fracture
into a mere bunch of individual.
In addition, acidic rain or groundwater can enlarge a natural
fracture
in a limestone bedrock layer to form a sinkhole.
In the case of that skull
fracture
from the other day, it did.
Once you lose your footing it is easy to fall and break your back, your tongue, your head or
fracture
your bones.
The
fracture
was said to be from a fall, and the body offered no contradictions.
She has a stress
fracture
in her left foot and a sore.
Subsequently she had problems with one of her eyes and also a
fracture
to her skull.
The petrification is so perfect that the skull plainly shows a
fracture
as if made by a heavy weapon.
Hakes is in a critical condition, the
fracture
of his skull having proved even more serious than was at first supposed.
Many times, a person will have a
fracture
before becoming aware that the disease is present.
Death was due to a
fracture
of the skull at the base of the brain.
Bowie complained recently of a recur ring pain, and a new examination revealed the
fracture
.
Jackson had a serious fall which resulted in a
fracture
of the knee.
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Main Entry:
fracture
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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Main Entry:
fracture
Part of Speech:
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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