fracture

See also: fracturé

English

Fracture of an aluminum crank arm of a bicycle, where Bright= brittle fracture, Dark= fatigue fracture.

Compare healthy bone with different types of fractures:
   (a) closed fracture
   (b) open fracture
   (c) transverse fracture
   (d) spiral fracture
   (e) comminuted fracture
   (f) impacted fracture
   (g) greenstick fracture
   (h) oblique fracture

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.tʃə/, /ˈfɹæk.tjə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fracture (plural fractures)

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
2. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
3. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

Derived terms

• brittle fracture
• compound fracture
• ductile fracture
• fracture mechanics
• greenstick fracture
• hairline fracture
• incomplete fracture
• Jones fracture
• simple fracture
• Smith's fracture
• stress fracture
• tracheal fracture
• vowel fracture

 

Related terms

• fractal
• fraction
• fragment

Translations

act of breaking, or something broken

• Afrikaans: breuk (af), fraksie
• Arabic: كسر (ar), انكسار
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: счупване (bg) n (sčupvane), фрактура (bg) f (fraktura)
• Catalan: fractura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨折 (zh) (gǔzhé)

• Czech: zlomenina (cs) f
• Danish: brud (da) n, fraktur c
• Dutch: breuk (nl) f, fractuur (nl) f
• Esperanto: rompo, frakturo
• Finnish: murtuma (fi)
• French: fracture (fr) f
• Galician: fractura f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Knochenbruch (de) m, Bruch (de) m, Fraktur (de) f
• Greek: κάταγμα (el) n (kátagma), θλάση (el) f (thlási)
• Italian: frattura (it)
• Japanese: 骨折 (ja) (こっせつ, kossetsu)
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 골절 (ko) (goljeol)
• Latin: fractūrā (la) f
• Manx: brishey m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fraktur m

  Nynorsk: fraktur m

• Papiamentu: breuk
• Polish: złamanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fratura (pt) f
• Romanian: fractură (ro) f, fracturare f, rupere (ro) f
• Russian: перело́м (ru) m (perelóm)
• Spanish: fractura (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kırık (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: bomabrek (vo)
• West Frisian: brek

(medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage

• Egyptian: (pšn)
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• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥῆγμα n (rhêgma)

(geology) fault

• Bulgarian: цепнатина (bg) f (cepnatina), лом (bg) m (lom)
• Dutch: Verwerfung
• Finnish: murros
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• Galician: falla f
• Greek: θραύση (el) f (thráfsi), σπάσιμο (el) n (spásimo)
• Portuguese: falha (pt) f

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
2. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
   • 2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up:

     “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.

Translations

break

• Arabic: يكسر, ينكسر
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: (transitive) лама́ць impf (lamácʹ), злама́ць pf (zlamácʹ); (intransitive) лама́цца impf (lamácca), злама́цца pf (zlamácca)
• Bulgarian: чупя (bg) (čupja), троша (bg) (troša)
• Catalan: fracturar (ca)
• Danish: (transitive) brække (da), (transitive) sprænge, (intransitive) sprænges
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: haljeta (fi), murtua (fi)
• Galician: fracturar (gl)
• Greek: θραύω (el) (thrávo), σπάω (el) (spáo)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 부러지다 (ko) (bureojida)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: fraturar (pt)
• Romanian: fractura (ro)
• Russian: (transitive) лома́ть (ru) impf (lomátʹ), слома́ть (ru) pf (slomátʹ); (intransitive) лома́ться (ru) impf (lomátʹsja), слома́ться (ru) pf (slomátʹsja)
• Spanish: fracturar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: (transitive) лама́ти impf (lamáty), злама́ти pf (zlamáty); (intransitive) лама́тися impf (lamátysja), злама́тися pf (zlamátysja)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “fracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fracture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fractūra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁak.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

Related terms

• fraction

Descendants

• → Romanian: fractură

Further reading

• “fracture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) frāctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of frāctūrus

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Spanish

Verb

fracture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.