NOUN
- fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae)
How To Use compression fracture In A Sentence
- Prior to the introduction in 1955 of succinylcholine muscle relaxation for ECT, many patients sustained spinal compression fractures during the tonic phase of the induced seizure, and pretreatment x-rays of the dorsolumbar spine were routinely obtained for medicolegal documentation. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- A bone scan on Monday revealed a compression fracture in vertebrae in the middle of his back.
- Compression fractures can occur anywhere from the occiput to the sacrum.
- A similar but less marked type of kyphosis may follow upon compression fracture of the spine -- in the condition known as traumatic spondylitis; and as a result of other lesions, such as osteomalacia, or malignant disease, in which the bodies undergo softening and yield, so that the spinous processes project posteriorly. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- Vertebroplasty makes no attempt to restore height and correct the kyphotic deformity which results from an osteoporotic compression fracture.
- A nuclear bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging of the spine confirmed compression fractures of those two vertebra.
