Types of Fractures

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Across
  1. 2. Fracture in which the bone is broken with no open skin wound; also called simple fracture.
  2. 3. Bone cells that resorb bone tissue.
  3. 4. Provides shape-supports muscle attachment-protection-produces cells-and stores essential minerals.
  4. 5. Device made of plaster or fiberglass used to immobilize a fracture or dislocation
  5. 7. A condition in which the body's bones become weak and break easily.
  6. 9. Fracture in which broken bone ends are forced into each other.
  7. 12. Fracture in which a tendon is forcibly extracts a piece off of the bone.
Down
  1. 1. Fracture with bending and incomplete break of a bone; most often seen in children.
  2. 3. Bone forming cells
  3. 6. Fracture in which a bone breaks through the skin.
  4. 8. Fracture in which the bone has been twisted apart- common in sports fracture.
  5. 10. Fracture in which the bone breaks into many fragments.
  6. 11. Fracture in which broken bone portion is pressed inward, typical of skull fracture.