7- Bone fracture categorization

Question 1

Avulsion

Answer 1

Complete severing of a body part-typically a toe or finger.

Question 2

Colles

Answer 2

Fracture at the distal end of the radius- dinner fork deformity

Question 3

Comminuted

Answer 3

bone is splintered into several main pieces between the main parts.

Question 4

Complete

Answer 4

bone is broken in two or more pieces.

Question 5

Compound

Answer 5

Broken ends of bone protrudes through the skin.

Question 6

Compression

Answer 6

Bone is squished between bones (as in vertebrae during a fall)

Question 7

Depressed

Answer 7

Broken part of bone forms a concavity (as in when the skull in broken and pressed in)

Question 8

Displaced

Answer 8

Broken bones are out of anatomic alignment

Question 9

Epiphyseal

Answer 9

The epiphysis is separated from the diaphysis at the epiphyseal line.

Question 10

Green stick

Answer 10

Partial fracture-one side of bone breaks and the other side of bone is bent.

Question 11

Hairline

Answer 11

Fine fracture in which broken pieces of bone stay aligned- common in skull

Question 12

Impacted

Answer 12

One fragment of bone is firmly driven into the other

Question 13

Incomplete

Answer 13

Fracture extends only part way across the bone

Question 14

Linear

Answer 14

Fracture is parallel to the diaphysis of the bone

Question 15

Oblique

Answer 15

Diagonal fracture

Question 16

Pathalogic

Answer 16

Weakening of bone due to disease process

Question 17

Pott

Answer 17

Fracture is at the distal end of the tibia and fibula

Question 18

Simple

Answer 18

Bone is not broken through the skin

Question 19

Stress

Answer 19

This fracture due to repeated stressful impact such as running (often hard to see on x-rays)

Question 20

Spiral

Answer 20

Fractures spirals around diaphysis of bone- results from twisting stress.

Question 21

Transverse

Answer 21

Fracture is at a right angle to diaphysis of the bone.