Meanings
noungreenstick (plural greensticks)
plural greensticks
- A greenstick fracture.
Greensticks are generally closed fractures, but occasionally with external wounds they become open.
1985, Norman G. Kirby, S. James Mather, Baillière's handbook of first aid, page 136
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