refracture
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
refracture (third-person singular simple present refractures, present participle refracturing, simple past and past participle refractured)
- To fracture again.
Noun edit
refracture (plural refractures)
- (surgery) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “refracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Participle edit
refrāctūre