displaced fracture

1. 1.

   fracture in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another

   Broaderfracture

Questions about displaced fracture

What does displaced fracture mean?

displaced fracture means "fracture in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another".

Is displaced fracture a common word?

displaced 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.