| HIP | health illness profile; health insurance plan or program; homograft incus prosthesis; hospital insur... |
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| HKAFO | hip, knee, ankle, and foot orthosis |
| HKAO | hip-knee-ankle orthosis |
| HO | hand orthosis; heterotopic ossification; high oxygen; hip orthosis; history of; Holt-Oram [syndrome]... |
| HOA | hip osteoarthritis; hypertrophic osteoarthropathy |
| compound bone fracture | <orthopaedics> A fractured bone that is exposed to potential bacterial contamination through a laceration or puncture wound in the soft tissues overlying the fracture site. (05 Jan 1998) |
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| compound fracture | Fracture in which the skin is perforated and there is an open wound down to the fracture. Synonym: compound fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compound skull fracture | A fracture with laceration of overlying scalp and/or mucous membrane. Synonym: compound skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compression fracture | <orthopaedics> A spinal fracture, more specifically, of a vertebral body, that results from the axial compression of the vertebra. Compression fractions result in a loss of height of the vertebral body on X-ray. May occur in any region of the spine. Compression fractures occur commonly in post-menopausal females who subject to osteoporosis. (05 Jan 1998) |
| multiple fracture | Fracture at two or more places in a bone. See: segmental fracture. Fracture of several bones occurring simultaneously. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cough fracture | <orthopaedics> A fracture of a rib or cartilage, usually the fifth or seventh, from vigorous coughing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pond fracture | A circular depressed skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial dysjunction fracture | A complex fracture in which the facial bones are separated from the cranial bones. Synonym: Le Fort III craniofacial dysjunction, Le Fort III fracture, transverse facial fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pott's fracture | Fracture of the lower part of the fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, with outward displacement of the foot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hairline fracture | A fracture without separation of the fragments, the line of break being hairlike, as seen sometimes in the skull. Synonym: capillary fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hamate fracture | <radiology> Associated with racquet-sport injury, best evaluated by CT (12 Dec 1998) |
| hangman's fracture | <radiology> Bilateral fracture of pedicles of axis (C2) see also: axis fractures, cervical spine fractures (12 Dec 1998) |
| Salter-Harris fracture | A classification of fractures (1-5) that occur around or through an epiphyseal plate (growth plate). (27 Sep 1997) |
| scaphoid fracture | A fracture of the scaphoid (navicular) bone in the wrist. The most common method of injury is a fall on an outstretched hand in an adult. In children, this same type of fall more commonly results in a Colles fracture. (27 Sep 1997) |
| segmental fracture | A fracture in two parts of the same bone. Synonym: double fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |