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| Largest and uppermost coxal bone |
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| Strongest and lower-most coxal bone |
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| Hip socket, formed by the union of three coxal bones |
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| cartilaginous, amphiarthrotic joint between the pubic bones |
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| large hole in the anterior surface of the coxal bone |
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| True pelvis (lesser pelvis) |
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| Space below the pelvic brim |
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| broad, shallow space above the pelvic brim |
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| larger, heavier, deep and funnel shaped with a narrow pubic arch (60-90 degree angle) |
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| shallow, broad, and flaring with a wider pubic arch (90-120 degree angle) |
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| longest and heaviest bone in the body |
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| largest sesamoid bone in the body |
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| Larger, stronger and more medially of the two leg bones |
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| smaller, more lateral of the two leg bones |
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| bones that form the heel and proximal or posterior half of the foot |
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| bone fragments pulled away from the underlying bone surface |
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| crumbled-type bone fragments near the fracture |
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| break extends across the entire bone |
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| bone bent but not broken only on one side (common in children) |
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| Common in the skull - fracture components are small and aligned |
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| one end of the fracture driven into the diaphysis of the other fracture |
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| some fracture components still partially joined |
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| fracture line parallel to the bone's long axis |
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| Nondisplaced, closed or simple fracture |
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| fracture that does not produce an open wound in the skin |
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| fracture line slanted or diagonal to the longitudinal axis |
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| Pathological (spontaneous) fracture |
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| bone fracture caused by weakening of the bone by a disease, thus making normal movements too stressful for the bone to bear |
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| fracture of the lower part of the tibia |
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| fracture line spiraling around the long axis |
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| bone fracture caused by mechanical stress (pressure) |
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| fracture line at a right angle to the long axis of the bone |
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