'Compound fracture' definitions:

Definition of 'compound fracture'

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noun
Bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound [syn: compound fracture, open fracture]

Definition of 'Compound fracture'

From: GCIDE
  • Compound \Com"pound\, a. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See Compound, v. t.] Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. [1913 Webster]
  • Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of compound numbers.
  • Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition.
  • Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.
  • Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether.
  • Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion.
  • Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction.
  • Compound fracture. See Fracture.
  • Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.]
  • Compound interest. See Interest.
  • Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny.
  • Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
  • Compound microscope. See Microscope.
  • Compound motion. See Motion.
  • Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number.
  • Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column.
  • Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities.
  • Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical.
  • Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d.
  • Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe.
  • Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw).
  • Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time.
  • Compound word, a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Compound fracture'

From: GCIDE
  • Fracture \Frac"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. fractura, fr. frangere, fractum, to break: cf. F. fracture. See Fraction.]
  • 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Surg.) The breaking of a bone. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Min.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. [1913 Webster]
  • Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts.
  • Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint.
  • Compound fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which there is an open wound from the surface down to the fracture.
  • Simple fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone only is ruptured. It does not communicate with the surface by an open wound.
  • Syn: Fracture, Rupture.
  • Usage: These words denote different kinds of breaking, according to the objects to which they are applied. Fracture is applied to hard substances; as, the fracture of a bone. Rupture is oftener applied to soft substances; as, the rupture of a blood vessel. It is also used figuratively. "To be an enemy and once to have been a friend, does it not embitter the rupture?" --South. [1913 Webster]