torus fracture

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torus fracture

A deformity in children caused by the longitudinal compression of the soft bone in either the radius or ulna, or both, and characterized by localized bulging.

torus fracture.

See lead pipe fracture.

torus fracture

Orthopedics An incomplete fracture of the diaphysis of long bones with buckling of the cortex on the side opposite the fracture. See Greenstick fracture.

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