Bone Fractures Review

What is the process called when a broken bone heals and reforms?

• bone remodeling

• bone regeneration

• bone restructuring

• bone reconstruction

What are the three main types of bone fractures?

• Closed fracture, Open fracture, Greenstick fracture

• Avulsion fracture

• Hairline fracture

• Comminuted fracture

IDENTIFY EACH OF THE FOLLOWING FRACTURES:

d

e

c

a

b

SPIRAL

COMPOUND

GREENSTICK

COMMINUTED

TRANSVERSE

What is the definition of a fracture?

• A complete or incomplete break in a bone

• The stretching and/or damaging of a ligament

• The stretching and/or damaging of a tendon

• A joint injury where bones are not in their normal position

A fracture that goes all the way through the bone is (a)   ​ ​ ​ , while ​ (b)   is diagonal across the bone.

• complete

• oblique

• transverse

• partial

• Closed

• oblique

• transverse

• comminuted

• avulsion

the medical term for a broken bone

• Fracture

• Contusion

• Sprain

• Strain

Which type of fracture is characterized by the bone breaking into multiple pieces?

• Greenstick fracture

• Comminuted fracture

• Simple fracture

• Compound fracture

Match the following

• Break created by tendon/ligament pull

• Comminuted fracture

• Shattered bone

• Sprain

• Incomplete fracture, common in children

• Stress fracture

• Crack in bone, created over time

• Greenstick fracture

• Torn ligament

• Avulsion

A female patient is brought to the emergency room with an injury to her lower leg from an ATV accident. You notice a white tip of a bone protruding through the skin as you cut her pant leg off. Her injury is described as what kind of fracture.

• Comminuted

• Pathologic

• Compound

• Stress