greenstick

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English

Noun

greenstick (plural greensticks)

  1. A greenstick fracture.
    • 1985, Norman G. Kirby, S. James Mather, Baillière's handbook of first aid, page 136:
      Greensticks are generally closed fractures, but occasionally with external wounds they become open.