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Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia..

Diastasis :: Diastasis (n.) A forcible of bones without fracture.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone..

Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture..

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship..

Glazy :: Glazy (a.) Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

Anfracture :: Anfracture (n.) A mazy winding.

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Felsite :: Felsite (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz..

Refracture :: Refracture (n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

Whole :: Whole (a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion..

Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..

Fractural :: Fractural (a.) Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament..

Conchoidal :: Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

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