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FATIGUE FRACTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury
Synonyms:
fatigue fracture; stress fracture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fatigue fracture" is a kind of...):
break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)