compound fracture

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noun

a fracture in which the broken bone is exposed through a wound in the skin.

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Origin of compound fracture

First recorded in 1535–45

Words nearby compound fracture

compound engine, compound eye, compound fault, compound flower, compound fraction, compound fracture, compound interest, compound interval, compound leaf, compound lens, compound magnet

How to use compound fracture in a sentence

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
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The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.
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Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.
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The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.
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British Dictionary definitions for compound fracture

compound fracture

noun

a fracture in which the broken bone either pierces the skin or communicates with an open wound

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