(someone) fractured (a bone)
The word "fracture" means "break a little bit".
When a bone is "fractured", it technically means that it is broken. Doctors have terms for lots of different kinds of fractures, including things like a "compound fracture", where the bone pushes out of the skin.
However, in everyday conversation, people mostly use the word "fracture" to describe a bone that's just a little bit broken. If pieces of the bone are completely disconnected, we say that it "broke":
I fractured my collar bone a little bit.
She broke her arm.
Two of my ribs are broken.
You can use the word "fracture" as a noun:
There's a small fracture in the knuckle of your right ring finger.
Or as an adjective:
It's fractured.
Or as a verb:
I fractured one of the bones in my foot.
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