Both Uses of
fracture
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilat†
Chpt 12
- A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
a crack (or break) of a hard object -- such as bone or rock; or the act of cracking or breaking