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Fracture Hard Bone Breaking Torn Fræktʃər N.挫伤;骨折 Boy

Front fracture
Pron ['fræktʃər]
Back 【fracture】
n.挫伤;骨折
The boy fell from a tree and suffered fractures of his right arm and leg.
男孩从树上摔下来,造成右手脚骨折。
Vocab
fracturebreaking of hard tissue such as bone

Think of something hard breaking in a crisp, snapping manner, and you've just imagined a fracture. The word is most often applied to a broken bone, but it can used to describe any sharp, sudden break of something solid.

The Latin frāctus means "broken," and its descendant fracture can mean any break, though it's most often associated with a hard — maybe even brittle — material, such as a bone, a rock, or the earth’s crust. When something softer is split we say it is torn. For example, when we say someone broke an arm, we are referring to the bone, not the muscle; we'd say the muscle is torn. When someone funny "breaks us up," we might say "you fracture me!"

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