Usually means: Bone collapse due to pressure.
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  1. compression fracture: Vocabulary.com
  2. compression fracture: Wiktionary
  3. compression fracture: Dictionary.com
  4. Compression fracture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. compression fracture: Rhymezone
  6. compression fracture: FreeDictionary.org
  7. compression fracture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. compression fracture: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. compression fracture: Legal dictionary

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  1. compression fracture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. compression fracture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Compression fracture, Fracture, compression: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. compression fracture: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. compression fracture: Medical dictionary
  7. Compression fracture, Fracture, compression: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compression fracture)

noun:  (pathology) Any fracture of a bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as a vertebra) caused by compression

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