greenstick fracture

1. 1.

   a partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side

   Broaderincomplete fracture

Questions about greenstick fracture

What does greenstick fracture mean?

greenstick fracture means "a partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side".

Is greenstick fracture a common word?

greenstick 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.