Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun compression_fracture

1 sense of compression fracture

Sense 1
compression fracture -- (fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae))
       => fracture, break -- (breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall")