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FRACTURE OBLIQUE [7 records]

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Record 1 2012-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

A fracture that runs obliquely to the long axis of a bone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Fracture à direction oblique par rapport à l'axe longitudinal de l'os.

OBS

Appelée parfois, au niveau de certains os, «fracture en bec de flûte».

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Rock has two distinct features, faces and cracks. Faces are unbroken slabs of rock. Cracks split these slabs in two.

CONT

Cracks vary in size from seams to chimneys. They are classified by the techniques used to climb them. Seams are so small you can't get your fingers in them; tips take only your fingertips; next is finger cracks, off-fingers, hand cracks, off-hands, fist cracks, off-widths, squeeze chimneys, and chimneys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Fracture de rocher, verticale, horizontale, ou oblique, dont se sert le grimpeur pour progresser.

CONT

Les fissures correspondent à des lignes de fracturation de la roche; selon leur largeur, de quelques millimètres à un mètre environ, les grimpeurs les appellent fissures à doigts, fissures à coincements, fissures larges, fissures-cheminées, cheminées.

CONT

La technique de la protection [...] nécessite une observation attentive du rocher pour déceler fissures, trous, bracelets du rocher qui vont fournir un emplacement pour un piton, un coinceur, une cordelette.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

Fractures are described using Ogden et al. classification: type I is an avulsion fracture of the most distal portion of the ossification center of the tubercle; type II, an upward angulation of the lip fragment; type III, a fracture of the lip fragment with propagation of the fracture line into the knee joint.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
CONT

Ryu et Debenham ont proposé un quatrième type qui correspond à une étendue du trait de fracture dans la corticale postérieure à travers le cartilage de croissance (correspondant au type II de Salter).

PHR

trait de fracture transversal, oblique, spiroïde

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Woodworking
  • Strength of Materials
DEF

Shear occurring along a plane or direction other than across or along the grain; as typified by a short column that has fractured under compression parallel to the grain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail du bois
  • Résistance des matériaux
DEF

S’agissant de mécanique du bois, [...] cisaillement intervenant selon un plan oblique par rapport au fil du bois : c'est le cas par ex. d’un poteau court qui se fracture sous l'effet d’une compression dans le sens du fil.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo de la madera
  • Resistencia de los materiales
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Record 5 1992-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

A patella that is divided into two parts. It is seen radiologically as a radiolucent line extending downward obliquely across the supero-lateral angle of the patella. This appearance is not to be confused with a fracture line. [From DOMED, 1988, p. 1241 and APORT, 1982, p. 455.]

OBS

Occasionally the patella is divided in more than two parts, resulting in a tripartite or a multipartite patella.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Rotule divisée en deux par un trait oblique radiotransparent isolant la partie supéro-externe de la rotule. Elle ne doit pas être confondue avec une fracture de la rotule.

OBS

Quelquefois la rotule comprend plus de deux parties osseuses : patella tripartita ou multipartita.

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

Oblique fracture of the proximal phalanx of the fifth toe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Fracture oblique de la phalange proximale du 5e orteil.

Spanish

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Record 7 1992-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

An oblique fracture of the tibia occurring in children. Seen in oblique view as a long or short hairline translucency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Fracture non déplacée, à trait de fracture spiroïde ou oblique, très fin(comme un cheveu), observée au niveau du tibia chez l'enfant qui débute la marche.

Spanish

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