stress fracture

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   fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury

   Synonymsfatigue fracture

   Broaderfracture

Questions about stress fracture

What does stress fracture mean?

stress fracture means "fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury".

What is another word for stress fracture?

Close synonyms include fatigue 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 stress fracture a common word?

stress 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.