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Definition of Stress fracture
1. Noun. Fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury.
Definition of Stress fracture
1. Noun. A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stress Fracture
Literary usage of Stress fracture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive And by Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (2006)
"Physical Activity and Nutrition: Effects on Bone Turnover, Bone Mass, and Stress
Fracture Jeri W. Nieves Helen Hayes Hospital and Columbia University, ..."
2. Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide edited by Patricia A. Deuster (1998)
"When the breakdown process exceeds the bone's ability to repair itself, a stress
fracture may result. As the lower extremity bone becomes weakened, ..."
3. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1883)
"... subject to often-repeated transverse stress, fracture of iron took place only
on the tension side of the bar, and extended only to the neutral axis. ..."
4. Steel Rails: Their History, Properties, Strength and Manufacture, with Notes by William Hamilton Sellew (1913)
"Among the several observations noted in his " Fatigue of Metals " is the important
fact that when subjected to often-repeated transverse stress fracture of ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Surgery by John Ashhurst (1871)
"... the fracture-box, lay such stress. Fracture-box, with movable side«. If in
cases of very oblique fracture it be desired to make exten this can readily ..."
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