10 uses
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Definition
a crack (or break) of a hard object — such as bone or rock; or the act of cracking or breaking
- Her leg had been so swollen and painful all along that the doctor had not even tried to set the fractures,Four — Panic Grass and Feverfew (53% in)
fractures = breaks (in this case, in the bone)
- By the light of a lantern, he had examined himself and found: left clavicle fractured; multiple abrasions and lacerations of face and body, including deep cuts on the chin, back, and legs; extensive contusions on chest and trunk: a couple of ribs possibly fractured.Three — Details are being Investigated (17% in)
- By the light of a lantern, he had examined himself and found: left clavicle fractured; multiple abrasions and lacerations of face and body, including deep cuts on the chin, back, and legs; extensive contusions on chest and trunk: a couple of ribs possibly fractured.Three — Details are being Investigated (18% in)
- Another doctor examined her and said that she did not have gas gangrene, though she did have a fairly ugly compound fracture.Three — Details are being Investigated (57% in)
- She lay there several days before a specialist on fractures came from Kobe.Three — Details are being Investigated (85% in)
- An internal infection still prevented the proper setting of the compound fracture of her lower left leg.Four — Panic Grass and Feverfew (10% in)
- Haut und sichtbare Schleimhiiute massig durchblutet und kein Oedema', noting that she was a medium— sized female patient in good general health; that she had a compound fracture of the left tibia, with swelling of the left lower leg; that her skin and visible mucous membranes were heavily spotted with petechiae, which are haemorrhages about the size of grains of rice, or even as big as soya beans; and, in addition, that her head, eyes, throat, lungs, and heart were apparently normal;...Four — Panic Grass and Feverfew (18% in)
- He wanted to set her fracture and put her leg in a cast, but he had run out of plaster of Paris long since, so he just stretched her out on a mat and prescribed aspirin for her fever, and glucose intravenously and diastase orally for her under nourishment (which he had not entered on her record because everyone suffered from it).Four — Panic Grass and Feverfew (19% in)
- He performed simple surgery — on appendixes, gastric ulcers, compound fractures — but he also rather daringly practiced every other sort of medicine, too, except gynecology and obstetrics.Five — The Aftermath (21% in)
- An X-ray on a bigger machine showed fractures of the eleventh and twelfth thoracic vertebrae.Five — The Aftermath (44% in)
There are no more uses of "fracture" in Hiroshima.
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