Fractures, Compression |
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| Compression Fractures; Compression Fracture; Fracture, Compression | |
| Crumbling or smashing of cancellous BONE by forces acting parallel to the long axis of bone. It is applied particularly to vertebral body fractures (SPINAL FRACTURES). (Blauvelt and Nelson, A Manual of Orthopedic Terminology, 1994, p4) | |