I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broken/fractured
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He was taken to hospital with a broken arm.
compound fracture
fracture a bone (= to break a bone so that a line appears on the surface )
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Sally fell, fracturing a bone in her leg.
simple fracture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
leg
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Tight end Brent Jones, out since fracturing his right leg Sept. 29 at Carolina, is still questionable.
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His skull was fractured and his legs were broken in what investigators believe was a fall from a nearby cliff.
skull
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The other reportedly had his skull fractured in 15 places, broken fingers and numerous stab wounds.
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Both legs were broken, my skull was fractured , the radio was demolished.
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His head was wrapped with tape and bandage because his skull had been fractured .
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She was reportedly sexually abused and her skull fractured .
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His skull was fractured and his legs were broken in what investigators believe was a fall from a nearby cliff.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hairline crack/fracture
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She had a hairline fracture in her leg.
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I was worried about a hairline fracture, but luckily it was just a bad lump.
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The specialist he consulted on Monday diagnosed a hairline fracture of his right wrist and wants to take another look on Friday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He fractured both his legs in the car accident.
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Lithuania fractured the Soviet Union by declaring its independence.
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My grandmother fell down the stairs and fractured her ankle.
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Ron fractured his finger in the first half of the game.
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The country has already been fractured by bitter ethnic and political clashes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Rue du Fraise fractured his left shoulder and had to be destroyed.
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St Ives's leg was fractured in two places.
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The other reportedly had his skull fractured in 15 places, broken fingers and numerous stab wounds.
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The sight of those fracturing red pearls comforted Gao Ma.
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The sluggish movements deep in the Earth eventually cause the rigid crust to fracture along great fault planes of weakness.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hairline
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The specialist he consulted on Monday diagnosed a hairline fracture of his right wrist and wants to take another look on Friday.
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Jones had the hairline fracture of his lower leg examined by a doctor....
hip
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When one in five orthopaedic beds is occupied with hip fracture patients, the benefits of such schemes are obvious.
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Not all data on hip fractures show marked increases in winter.
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The only other large studies with controls examined hip fractures and rheumatoid arthritis and found odds ratios of 1.5 and 2.1.
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One in five will die from a hip fracture .
multiple
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He said post mortems showed Mrs Garvey had died from head injuries, including multiple fractures to the skull.
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In addition to hypocalcemia, osteomalacia, when present, is quite severe, frequently resulting in multiple fractures .
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Lynne Deeley suffered a crushed pelvis, multiple fractures to her leg, a broken ankle and head injuries.
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Simon Forrest suffered multiple fractures when his car crashed into a van, recovering in hospital, he echoes the speed warnings.
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He had multiple fractures down his right side, including a smashed collar bone and arm.
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It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone.
■ NOUN
compound
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Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.
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Ward suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in Good Friday's derby match at Wigan.
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It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756.
skull
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Depressed skull fracture , uneven pupils, ragged reflexes - and more fractures than I care to think about.
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Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture .
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He also agreed he'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose.
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The pale, badly bruised face and thin trickle of blood from one ear, suggested a skull fracture too.
■ VERB
suffer
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Simon Forrest suffered multiple fractures when his car crashed into a van, recovering in hospital, he echoes the speed warnings.
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But she also suffered a second stress fracture to her tibia last season.
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Her daughter ses she suffered a similar fracture three years ago which also wasn't spotted.
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Full-back Tony Clement is also out after suffering a stress fracture of the right ankle and is replaced by Mike Rayer.
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The Rangers ace suffered a stress fracture of the right knee after a late tackle in the recent 1-1 draw at Broomfield.
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Ward suffered a compound fracture of the left leg in Good Friday's derby match at Wigan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hairline fracture
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More elderly women than men suffer hip fractures.
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X-rays showed no fractures in his leg.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hip fractures, which especially plague older women, are the most serious fall injury for seniors.
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Induced fractures or cracks occur at the borehole wall as the result of off-loading the stresses during the drilling operation.
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It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone.
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That despite a troublesome physical problem: a wrist fracture incurred on his last tour that went unnoticed for months.
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The geometry of the fracture is usually calculated on the basis of volume of fluid injected during the hydraulic fracture operation.
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The type and irregularity of fracture bears a complex relation to the breaking of bonds in directions that cut across crystallographic planes.
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They argue, as others have done, that screening is appropriate because bone density is related to subsequent risk of fracture .