crush fracture

Obvious crush fracture of the right temporal bone.

Vertebral crush fractures, which cause the dowager's hump, occur mainly in women.

Vertebral crush fractures can be painful, disfiguring and disabling.

Daljeet pointed to the crush fracture.

The young woman, who barely survived the attack, suffered a fractured skull, crush fracture of the head and a seven centimetres long cut to the face.

The average American woman shrinks an inch and a half each decade after the age of 50 because of crush fractures of the spinal vertebrae.

With the spinal disease, crush fractures occur in the vertebrae and they compress, reducing stature and causing the back to curve.

At some point in his life he had suffered a violent blow to the left side of his face, creating a crushing fracture to his left orbit which would have left Nandy partially or totally blind in one eye.

Estrogen deficiency following menopause contributes to osteoporosis, which results in vertebral crush fractures (which afflict women nine times as often as men) and hip fractures (which afflict women twice as often as men).