fractures

• compression: occurs when the bone is pressed together on itself.
• Colles' fracture: occurs of the lower end of the radius when someone tries to stop a bad fall.
• fracture: broken bone.
• closed fracture: aka complete fracture, where the bone is broken with no open wound in the skin.
• open fracture: bone is broken and through the skin
• comminuted fracture: the bone is splintered or crushed.
• greenstick fracture: bone is bent and only partially broken.
• oblique fracture: occurs at an angle across the bone.
• pathological fracture: when a weakened bone breaks under normal strain.
• spiral fracture: the bone has been twisted apart.
• stress fracture: overuse fracture caused by a small crack in the bone that go progressively worse.
• transverse fracture: occurs straight across the bone.