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fracture
(redirected from compression fracture)

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See: hiatus, rend, rift, split


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Taken once a daily, it can reduce the risk of vertebral compression fracture by 90% and femoral fracture by 51%.
It has been estimated that there are 700,000 osteoporosis related vertebral compression fractures annually.
When he was 2 years old, he fell out of the back seat of a moving car and suffered a compression fracture to his back.
 
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