Fractures [4]

Question 1

Closed fracture

Simple fracture

Answer 1

A fracture in which there is no open skin wound.

Question 2

Colles’

Answer 2

A common type of wrist fracture.

Question 3

Comminuted fracture

Answer 3

Fracture in which the bone is shattered, splintered, or crushed into small pieces of fragments.

Question 4

Compound fracture

Open fracture

Answer 4

Fracture in which the skin has been broken through to the fracture.

Question 5

Compression fracture

Answer 5

Fracture involving loss of height of a vertebral body.

Question 6

Fracture

Answer 6

A broken bone.

Question 7

Greenstick fracture

Answer 7

Fracture in which there is an incomplete break; one side of the bone is broken and the other side is bend.

Question 8

Impacted fracture

Answer 8

Fracture in which fragments are pushed into each other.

Question 9

Oblique

Answer 9

Fracture at an angle to the bone.

Question 10

Pathologic

Answer 10

Fracture caused by disease or weakened bone.

Question 11

Spiral fracture

Answer 11

Fracture in which the fracture line spirals around the shaft of the bone.

Question 12

Stress fracture

Answer 12

A slight fracture caused by repetitive low-impact forced, like running, rather than as ingle force impact.

Question 13

Transverse fracture

Answer 13

Complete fracture that is straight across the bone at right angles to the long axis of the bone.