All 10 Uses of
fracture
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- She lay there several days before a specialist on fractures came from Kobe.†
Chpt 3
- Her leg had been so swollen and painful all along that the doctor had not even tried to set the fractures,
Chpt 4 *fractures = breaks
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- An X-ray on a bigger machine showed fractures of the eleventh and twelfth thoracic vertebrae.†
Chpt 5
- Another doctor examined her and said that she did not have gas gangrene, though she did have a fairly ugly compound fracture.†
Chpt 3
- An internal infection still prevented the proper setting of the compound fracture of her lower left leg.†
Chpt 4
- 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; and that she had a fever.†
Chpt 4
- 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).†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(fracture) a crack or break, or to cause one, especially in something hard -- such as a bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."