complete fracture

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   break involving the entire width of the bone

   Broaderfracture

Questions about complete fracture

What does complete fracture mean?

complete fracture means "break involving the entire width of the bone".

Is complete fracture a common word?

complete fracture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.