COMPRESSION FRACTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compression fracture mean? 

• COMPRESSION FRACTURE (noun)
  The noun COMPRESSION FRACTURE has 1 sense:

1. fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae)

  Familiarity information: COMPRESSION FRACTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPRESSION FRACTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fracture in which the bone collapses (especially in short bones such as vertebrae)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("compression fracture" is a kind of...):

break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)

 Context examples 

Compression fractures usually occur in the spine (backbone) and in bones made weak by cancer or by osteoporosis (a decrease in bone mass and density).

(Compression fracture, NCI Dictionary)

MR requires all of the following: 1. 25-49% reduction in the level of the serum monoclonal paraprotein maintained for a minimum of 6 weeks; 2. 50-89% reduction in 24 h urinary light chain excretion, which still exceeds 200 mg/24 h, maintained for a minimum of 6 weeks; 3. for patients with non-secretory myeloma only, 25-49% reduction in plasma cells in a bone marrow aspirate and on trephine biopsy, if biopsy is performed, maintained for a minimum of 6 weeks; 4. 25-49% reduction in the size of soft tissue plasmacytomas (by radiography or clinical examination); 5. no increase in size or number of lytic bone lesions (development of a compression fracture does not exclude response) (adapted from National Comprehensive Cancer Network).

(Minimal Response of Multiple Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)