Definition of "comminuted fracture" [comminuted fracture]

• See under Fracture. (verb-transitive)
• A fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The soldier was kicked by a horse; the result was a compound comminuted fracture with both bones badly shattered."
• "It reads in part, There has been complete interval healing of the mildly comminuted fracture deformity of the proximal ulna as well as the obliquely oriented intra-articular fracture of the radial head."