Meanings
nounstress fracture (plural stress fractures)
plural stress fractures
- A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.
Synonyms: fatigue fracture
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.
Similar
fatigue fracture
More synonyms by meaning
nounfracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury
Similar
fatigue fracture
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish rasitusmurtuma
- rasitusmurtumacrack
French fracture de fatigue
- fracture de fatiguecrack
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APA
stress fracture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stress%20fracture
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“stress fracture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stress%20fracture. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stress fracture,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stress%20fracture.
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