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GREENSTICK FRACTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("greenstick fracture" is a kind of...):
incomplete fracture (fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone)