What is "greenstick"

Usage examples of "greenstick".

In the direct view the flesh appeared to melt away from the bone, showing a ragged break much like a greenstick fracture, with little chips floating around it.

Fragments from two individuals, mature male and adolescent female, greenstick fracture of f.

A greenstick fracture of the ulna was visible but the injury was so well healed that the splint and bandage were superfluous.

The man gave a hoarse yell of pain, not only for his jolting hit to the ground, but for his greenstick fracture.

The universe exists in a matrix of four dimensions which we can perceive and seven which we cannot, which is why we experience peace and brotherhood as a seven-dimensional greenstick phenomenon.

By the time he came back, Sergeant Brock had rigged a greenstick pothook to hang the kettle over the fire.

But if you wish to return to your mother while I continue attempting to make soldiers of these greensticks, do so.

He heard Dr Handor telling his ma that it was a greenstick fracture, no more serious than any childhood break: 'It's the sort of break kids get falling out of trees,' he said, and Eddie heard his ma respond furiously: 'Eddie doesn't climb trees!

He felt the splintered ends of the greenstick fracture grind together.

My right arm had whipped around behind me when I went down, and I had sustained a nasty greenstick fracture of the forearm.

Watching as Parkus and Sophie skewer the birds on greensticks reinforces this idea.