open fracture

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   bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound

   Synonymscompound fracture

   Broaderfracture

Questions about open fracture

What does open fracture mean?

open fracture means "bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound".

What is another word for open fracture?

Close synonyms include compound fracture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is open fracture a common word?

open 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.