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COMPRESSION FRACTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("compression fracture" is a kind of...):
break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)
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