The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refracture
Refracture \Re*frac"ture\ (r?*fr?k"t?r;135), n. (Surg.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
Refracture
Refracture \Re*frac"ture\, v. t. (Surg.) To break again, as a bone.
Wiktionary
refracture
n. (context surgery English) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon. vb. To fracture again.
WordNet
refracture
v. break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way; "The surgeon had to refracture her wrist"
Usage examples of "refracture".
The right humerus, the right tibia and fibula, a refracture of the left tibia and a new one of the left ankle.
One thing was certain, though: the jungle was thick enough in areas not refractured or overrun by lava flows that it formed a multicolored but effective canopy over the forest floor.