Fracture

Introduction: Fracture

Description of Fracture

Fracture (medical condition): Fracture of a bone; also "broken bone"....more »

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Fractures:
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  »Symptoms of Fractures
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Fracture: breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall".
Source: WordNet 2.1

Fracture: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Fracture:

• Tissue
• Bone
• Bone symptoms (2907 causes)
• Bone disease (2907 causes)
• Bone disorder
• Bone pain (272 causes)
• Was
• Fracture
• Break

Fracture as a Disease

Fracture: Another name for Fractures (or close medical condition association).
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Fracture: Related Diseases

Fracture: Fracture is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Bone conditions
• Physical conditions
• Non-genetic diseases
• Non-Contagious Diseases

Causes of Fracture

Some of the causes of Fracture are included in the list below:

• Physical trauma
• Osteoporosis
• Gaucher disease type 2 - bone fractures
• Bone dysplasia Azouz type - fractures
• Renal rickets - fractures

See full list of 118 causes of Fracture (Fractures)

Symptoms of Fracture (Fractures)

Some of the symptoms of Fracture incude:

• Local pain
• Local bleeding
• Local swelling
• Deformity or dislocation
• Symptoms of associated nerve damage:

See full list of 8 symptoms of Fracture (Fractures)

Treatments for Fracture (Fractures)

Treatments for Fracture (Fractures) include:

• Emergency treatment
• Surgery
• Reduction of fracture - aligning broken ends of a bone
• Closed reduction
• Open reduction

See full list of 11 treatments for Fracture

Treatment of Fracture: For more treatment information about Fracture, see treatment of Fractures (Fracture)

Fracture: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Fracture:

• Colle's fracture
• smith's fracture

Terms associated with Fracture:

Terms Similar to Fracture:

• break

Source - WordNet 2.1

More specific terms for Fracture:

• comminuted fracture
• complete fracture
• compound fracture
• open fracture
• compression fracture
• depressed fracture
• displaced fracture
• fatigue fracture
• stress fracture
• hairline fracture
• capillary fracture
• incomplete fracture
• impacted fracture
• simple fracture
• closed fracture

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Fracture

• injury
• hurt
• harm
• trauma

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Fracture

The following list attempts to classify Fracture into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• harm,hurt,injury,trauma
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

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