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Preferred Label : compression fracture;

Definition : Crumbling or smashing of cancellous bone by forces acting parallel to the long axis of bone. It is applied particularly to vertebral body fractures (spinal fractures). (Blauvelt and Nelson, a manual of Orthopedic Terminology, 1994, p4) [MeSH];

UMLS CUI (RADLEX) : C0521169;

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Crumbling or smashing of cancellous bone by forces acting parallel to the long axis of bone. It is applied particularly to vertebral body fractures (spinal fractures). (Blauvelt and Nelson, a manual of Orthopedic Terminology, 1994, p4) [MeSH]

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