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Fracture

n.
  1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
  2. (Surg.) The breaking of a bone.
  3. (Min.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
    4. Comminuted fracture (Surg.),
    a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts.
    Complicated fracture (Surg.),
    a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint.
    Compound fracture (Surg.),
    a fracture in which there is an open wound from the surface down to the fracture.
    Simple fracture (Surg.),
    a fracture in which the bone only is ruptured. It does not communicate with the surface by an open wound.

v. t.
  1. To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.