NOUN
- a partial fracture of a bone (usually in children); the bone is bent but broken on only one side
How To Use greenstick fracture In A Sentence
- At this point I preferred to have a quick look myself, and indeed my daughter had a mildly angulated Smith's greenstick fracture.
- Yesterday she sustained a greenstick fracture to her left forearm when another child fell on her at the bottom of a slide. Archive 2009-06-01
- It is no uncommon experience to find a patient walk into hospital with an impacted fracture of the neck of the femur or a fracture of the fibula; or to be able to pronate and supinate the forearm with a greenstick fracture of the radius or a fracture of the ulna. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
