incomplete fracture

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   fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone

   Broaderfracture

   Narrowergreenstick fracture

Questions about incomplete fracture

What does incomplete fracture mean?

incomplete fracture means "fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone".

Is incomplete fracture a common word?

incomplete 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.