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Refracture

Refracture Meaning & Definition
Refracture Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Refracture?

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

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Refracture In Webster's Dictionary

\Re*frac"ture\ (r?*fr?k"t?r;135), n. (Surg.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
\Re*frac"ture\, v. t. (Surg.) To break again, as a bone.

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