WordNet
hairline fracture
n. a fracture without separation of the frgments and the line of the break being very thin [syn: capillary fracture]
Usage examples of "hairline fracture".
X-ray shows a fracture of the skull and not a hairline fracture either.
When Sagan had been struck by the lunar fragments, Ezri had suffered a hairline fracture of her left radius, and an anterior dislocation of her right sternoclavicular joint.
His forehead has a lump on it the size of a golf ball, and he's got a hairline fracture of his ulna.
If she'd fallen from high enough to do that much damage, chances are her neck would have been broken--more than just a hairline fracture.