Usually means: Bone breaks, skin is pierced.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. open fracture: Merriam-Webster
  2. open fracture: Vocabulary.com
  3. open fracture: Dictionary.com
  4. Open fracture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. open fracture: Rhymezone
  6. open fracture: FreeDictionary.org
  7. open fracture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. open fracture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. open fracture: Wiktionary

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  1. open fracture: Legal dictionary

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

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

(Note: See open_fractures as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (open fracture)

noun:  (pathology) A fracture of a bone where one or more bone fragments penetrate the skin, forming an open wound.

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