What is "depressed fracture"

Usage examples of "depressed fracture".

Conway counted three decompressions, the rest being fractures of varying degrees of complication one of which was quite definitely a depressed fracture of the skull.

The autopsy showed that the blow on the back of his skull had been a particularly violent one and had been made with a heavy rounded instrument, resulting in a depressed fracture quite different from the fissured fracture caused by striking a flat surface.

Through the twin transparencies of the litter wall and the TRLH's suit its injuries were plainly apparent-a large, depressed fracture of the carapace which had cut underlying blood vessels.

There is also cranial damage, a large depressed fracture which is compressing the main nerve trunk and affecting mobility in the rear limbs.

Although I find no depressed fracture in this case, which is the usual reason for trepanning, I fear that there may be a clot of extravasated blood under the point of impact which is having the same effect.

On the other hand, I should be glad of your assistance in a tolerably delicate operation as soon as there is light enough: a depressed fracture.

Wyfold had told him that there was no way of knowing what had been used to cause the depressed fracture at the base of her brain.

Provided, of course, there's no depressed fracture or anything like that.

A bullet had notched the short rib over the liver and there was a depressed fracture and bullet hole high on the left forehead.

It had given her a depressed fracture of the occipital bone on the right side of the back of the skull.

In the middle of the forehead a great depressed fracture was plainly visible, beneath a discoloration of the skin.