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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A partial bone fracture, usually seen in young people, in which one side of the bone is broken and the other side is bent.
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- noun An incomplete
fracture of a longbone in which one side of abone isbroken while the other isbent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side
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