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What type of fracture bone pieces pressed together?
Compression
What is the medical term meaning very thin fracture line with the bone pieces still together?
A Hairline Fracture OR Possibly a Green Stick Fracture where the 2 pieces of the bone are still in position, but the bone is cracked … like green stick.
What bones are connected the the jowl?
The jowl is another name for the jaw or the cheek bone. The jaw bone is known as the mandible and is connected to the cranium. Together they are known as the skull.
What are the immovable joints of the cranial bones known as?
The cranial bones are fused together at immovable joints known as sutures. The skull contains 22 bones of which 21 are fused together at these joints. The only skull bone that is capable of movement is the jaw bone.
Why is fixing a fractured bone called reducing the fracture?
"Reducing a fracture" is literally what you do when you "fix" a bone that is fractured. When a bone breaks there is a "space" separating the two pieces of bone. The space, also called a "fracture", can be very small or very large but there is a space nonetheless. To fix this bone you need to bring the two pieces back together in an anatomic position and "minimize the space" created by the break or in other words "reduce the fracture"
What is a splintered bone?
Splintered bone is bone that has been broken into little sharp pieces, or has little sharp pieces breaking off of it. Also called a comminuted fracture.
What is the tigh bone called?
Another name for the tigh bone is called the femur
What is small needlelike pieces of bone with lots of open spaces?
Spongy bone
How many pieces of chicken are in the KFC bucket?
depends upon if you go original, extra crispy, bone in, bone out, or bone on the side.
What is the definition of oracle bones?
Oracle bones are pieces of bone or turtle plastron (underside) bearing the answers to divination chiefly during the late Shang Dynasty.They were heated and cracked, then typically inscribed using a bronze pin in what is known as oracle bone script. ...
Little painful pieces of bone chips on bottom of your foot?
You may have bone 'spurs'.
What is a numerous breaks in a bone?
A comminuted fracture is a broken bone that is in more than two pieces.
