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hip fracture

noun

Etymology

From hip + fracture, from being a fracture of the leg, located near, but below, the hip.

  1. derived from *bʰreg-✻
  2. derived from frāctūra
  3. derived from fracture
  4. inherited from fracture
  5. compounded as hip fracture — “hip + fracture”

Definitions

  1. A break to the upper quarter of the femur (the femoral head or the femoral neck),…

    A break to the upper quarter of the femur (the femoral head or the femoral neck), impairing the hip joint.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA