compound fracture
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Illness & disabilitycompound fractureˌcompound ˈfracture noun [countable] MIa broken bone that cuts through someone’s skinExamples from the Corpuscompound fracture• Ward suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in Good Friday's derby match at Wigan.• Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.• It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756.