What is the scientific name for a broken bone ?

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What is the scientific name for a broken bone ?
I think it's just refered to as a bone fracture.
Reply:Fracture.
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Reply:A broken or cracked bone is known as a fracture. Fractures can affect any bone in the body.





Bones can fracture in a number of different ways. A fracture may be a straight break across the bone (transverse fracture), slanting (oblique fracture) or winding (spiral fracture). The break may run along the shaft of the bone (longitudinal fracture), or the bone may be shattered into pieces (comminuted fracture). Young bone is softer and more able to bend than adult bone, so children's bones often fracture on one side but bend on the other. This is known as a greenstick fracture.





An avulsion fracture is when a piece of bone detaches from the main bone, usually because of being torn away by the tendon that attaches a muscle to a bone. A fracture in which the bone collapses is called a compression fracture. Compression fractures usually affect the spongy bone found in the spine.





A fracture in which the skin around the bone has not been broken is called a simple or closed fracture. If the ends of the bone break through the skin, or there is a wound that leads to the fractured bone, it is called a compound or open fracture. In a compound fracture the bone is open to infection, so this type of fracture is more serious.





A complicated fracture is one in which there is injury to other nearby structures, such as major blood vessels and nerves. A fracture-dislocation occurs when a joint becomes dislocated and there is also a fracture of one of the bones of the joint.





After a fracture, the broken fragments of bone normally separate from each other. However, sometimes one fragment of bone can be driven into another. This is known as an impacted fracture.
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Reply:It is called a fracture. These are divided into a number of types.





Simple- one break skin closed


Compound- a break where the skin is broken


Comminuted- where the bone is broken in to more than 2 pieces


Complex-with severe soft tissue damage


Compressed-usually a crush due to impact


Greenstick- in the young where the bone partially cracks, like a green twig
Reply:A broken bone is generally known as a fracture.


There are two different types.





normal fracture:


Where the bone breaks and remains in situ (the broken parts remain in the body)





OR, if you're really unlucky!





Compound fracture:


Where the bone breaks and protrudes through the skin!





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Reply:The Scientific name for a broken bone is called a"fracture" and there are many types like :-


Compound fracture (this where the skin breaks due to injury and the broken bone is exposed)





Transverse fracture (this where the bone has broken in a straight line across its width)





Spiral fracture (this is where the limb has twisted like in a skiing accident and the shaft of the bone has broken in a spiral fashion)





Greenstick fracture (this type of fracture is generally found in children, their bones tend to bend with alto more ease than adults so when this fracture occurs it is incomplete and is usually broken on the one side of the bone)





Buckle fracture (this fracture is again only found in children as the covering of the bone "periostium" is thicker in a child than an adult the bone creases and looks like a buckle on an X-ray).





There are many more types but i have only listed the most common, i hope this helps.
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