A break or fracture; (also more generally) an injury.

spec. Pathology. A narrow solution of continuity produced by injury or by ulceration; also, an incomplete fracture of a bone, without separation…

The action of breaking or fact of being broken; breakage; spec. in Surgery (the earliest use), the breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc.

Specific uses. Surgery and Medicine, in compound cyst, compound rupture, compound dislocation, etc.; compound fracture variously used: see esp…

The result of breaking; the state of being broken; a broken place, breach, fissure, rupture; spec. in Surgery a fracture. Obsolete.

Surgery. Breaking, fragmentation, or crushing of tissue; an instance of this. Now rare.

(See quot. 1634.)

= compound fracture at compound, adj. 2a.

a fracture with an injury to adjacent viscera, a blood vessel, etc., which complicates the case; formerly used in a wider sense, including compound…

Surgery. The separation of the parts of a bone after a fracture; a fracture characterized by this. Obsolete. rare.

a fracture consisting of cracks radiating from a central point.

a fracture occurring in a material or in a bone as a result of excessive or repeated stress.