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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fracture caused by the compression of one bone, especially a vertebra, against another.
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- noun medicine Any fracture of a
bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as avertebra ) caused by compression
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- noun fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae)
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