Refracture

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Refracture \Re*frac"ture\ (r?*fr?k"t?r;135), n. (Surg.)
     A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Refracture \Re*frac"ture\, v. t. (Surg.)
     To break again, as a bone.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  refracture
       v : break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an
           abnormal way; "The surgeon had to refracture her wrist"