Usually means: Bone breaks, pierces through skin.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word compound fracture:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound fracture: Merriam-Webster
  2. compound fracture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compound fracture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compound fracture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compound fracture: Vocabulary.com
  6. compound fracture: Wordnik
  7. compound fracture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compound fracture: Wiktionary
  9. compound fracture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. compound fracture: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. compound fracture: Dictionary.com
  12. Compound Fracture (film), Compound fracture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. compound fracture: Rhymezone
  14. compound fracture: FreeDictionary.org
  15. compound fracture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. compound fracture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. compound fracture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compound fracture: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compound fracture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound fracture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Compound fracture, Fracture, compound: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. compound fracture: Medical dictionary
  6. Compound fracture, Fracture, compound: Drug Medical Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compound fracture: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compound fracture)

noun:  A broken bone communicating with a co-existing skin wound.

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