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"ref": "2016, Ping-Chung Leung, Kwong-Sui Leung, Leung-Kim Hung, “Hand and Wrist Injuries”, in Nikolaj Wolfson, editor, Orthpedics in Disasters: Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events, Heidelberg: Springer Nature, →DOI, part IV (Treatment of Orthopaedic Injuries: Specific Orthopaedic Injuries), section 27.6.1 (Distal Radius Fracture), page 300, column 2",
"text": "Wrist fractures encountered in natural disasters most frequently belong to the more complicated types, viz. III, IV and VIII. Importantly, comminutions are common. When both radius and ulnar are involved with comminutions, joint surface involvements are often combined with soft tissue injuries.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (technically, at least three); crumbling."
],
"links": [
[
"traumatology",
"traumatology"
],
[
"fracture",
"fracture#Noun"
],
[
"bone",
"bone#Noun"
],
[
"site",
"site#Noun"
],
[
"multiple",
"multiple"
],
[
"pieces",
"piece#Noun"
],
[
"crumbling",
"crumbling#Noun"
]
],
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"(traumatology) The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (technically, at least three); crumbling."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences",
"traumatology"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˌkɒmɪˈnjuːʃ(ə)n/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌkɑməˈn(j)uʃən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
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"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "crushing"
},
{
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "pulverization"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "تفتيت"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "comminució"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fěnsuì",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "粉碎"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "comminution"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "Zerkleinern"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "comminūtiō"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "rozdrabnianie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kruszenie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmelʹčénije",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "измельче́ние"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "dróblennja",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "дро́блення"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "podríbnennja",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "подрі́бнення"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "breaking or grinding up of a material",
"word": "pyloriant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conminuta"
}
],
"word": "comminution"
}
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