Breaking of hard tissue such as bone

Usage examples of fracture.

The clavicle was fractured two inches from the acromial end, and the sternal end was driven high up into the muscles of the neck.

These catastrophic seismic disturbances apparently produced the geologic divide, the Mississippi Valley Time-Slip, fracturing our continent into the ruined Here-and-Now of the eastern seaboard and the anachronistic There-and-Then of western North America.

Contusions and lacerations are often attended with worse phaenomena, and with more fatal consequences, than fractures.

INTO THE ABYSS On the day after the Trade Center bombing, as he moved across the fractured B-l level below the Towers, Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca had no idea that the area would soon be off-limits to the Bureau of Fire Investigation.

The gun butt was considerably harder than the cosh and I regretfully decided I had fractured his skull.

He had proceeded to beat Bissonette with the bat all across his body, fracturing bones in both his arms, his fibula, his patella, his coxae, five ribs, and his skull, leaving a five-inch dent in the side of his head.

For a long time he lay gasping, watching sparks drift past as he slid in and out of a fractured near-sleep while Cumber sat beside him, mumbling to himself and moaning.

Tests were performed to check for cardiac murmur, heart engorgement, subconjunctival hemorrhage, jaundice, asexuality, hip dysplasia, clavicle fractures, skin mottling.

On the viewscreen they could see the shape of Equinox, about half the size of Voyager, engulfed in the fracturing bulb of her own shields.

That a violent climax caused the fracture, and their subsequent euphoric sleep masked the fault for both of them is logical, but not provable, and even if it did, she is in no way to blame, no way, dammit .

That a violent climax caused the fracture, and their subsequent euphoric sleep masked the fault for both of them is logical, but not provable, and even if it did, she is in no way to blame, no way, dammit.

Through the rising dust of fractured stone, Boba Fett could hear the screams and shouts of the Shell Hutts and their hired thugs as one pillar and then another toppled into the center of the hall, bringing down a section of roof and exposing the dark sky of Circumtore.

She turned this way and that in the predicament she had sought and from which she could neither retreat with grace nor emerge with credit: she draped herself in the tatters of her impudence, postured to her utmost before the last little triangle of cracked glass to which so many fractures had reduced the polished plate of filial superstition.

The torrent plunged into the fractures, the water drops sparkling with rubescent shimmer in the fulgent splendor of blazing fuel tanks.

From this height, if a gomer goes to ground it is an automatic intertrochanteric fracture of a hip, and a TURF TO ORTHOPEDICS.