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  2. Bone fracture - Wikipedia

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    An open fracture (or compound fracture) is a bone fracture where the broken bone breaks through the skin. [2] A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress , or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis , osteopenia , bone cancer , or osteogenesis imperfecta ...

  3. List of eponymous fractures - Wikipedia

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    lateral tibial plateau avulsion fracture with anterior cruciate ligament tear: internal rotation of the knee: Segond fracture at Who Named It? Shepherd's fracture: Francis J. Shepherd: fracture of the lateral tubercle of the posterior process of the talus: Shepherd's fracture at Mondofacto online medical dictionary Smith's fracture: Robert ...

  4. Sprain - Wikipedia

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    A sprain is a soft tissue injury of the ligaments within a joint, often caused by a sudden movement abruptly forcing the joint to exceed its functional range of motion.. Ligaments are tough, inelastic fibers made of collagen that connect two or more bones to form a joint and are important for joint stability and proprioception, which is the body's sense of limb position and movem

  5. Periprosthetic - Wikipedia

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    Bone fracture or 'periprosthetic fracture' [1] around an artificial joint, e.g. after a knee replacement; infection around an artificial joint or 'periprosthetic joint infection' [2] Vegetation or leak around an artificial heart valve

  6. Orthopedic surgery - Wikipedia

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    As with many words derived with the "æ" ligature, simplification to either "ae" or just "e" is common, especially in North America.In the US, the majority of college, university, and residency programmes, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, still use the spelling with the digraph ae, though hospitals usually use the shortened form.

  7. List of orthopaedic eponyms - Wikipedia

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    Boxer's fracture; Bumper fracture; Burst fracture; Bosworth fracture; Chance fracture; Chopart's fracture-dislocation; Clay-Shoveller fracture; Colles' fracture; Cotton's fracture; Dupuytren's fracture; Duverney fracture; Essex-Lopresti fracture; Galeazzi fracture; Gosselin fracture; Hangman's fracture; Holstein–Lewis fracture; Holdsworth ...

  8. Occult fracture - Wikipedia

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    The bone is a living tissue, with the capacity to repair itself; fatigue fractures occur when repetitive injuries exceed the repair capacity of the bone. This type of fracture does not occur as a single event but rather incrementally as a sequence of cellular events that begin with increased osteoclastic activity.

  9. Farhang-e-Asifiya - Wikipedia

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    Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]