| In either case, the bending may be increased by the traction of muscles, and sometimes by the occurrence of greenstick fracture. |
| At this point I preferred to have a quick look myself, and indeed my daughter had a mildly angulated Smith's greenstick fracture. |
| Experimental conditions that promote a greenstick fracture mode in composite pultruded rods have been considered. |
| After the game we went to the Princess of Wales hospital and the nurse there said straight away he had a greenstick fracture. |
| I'm surprised that a greenstick fracture in a child this age was not immediately reported to the authorities. |
| But he also observed more compressive fractures, as well as so-called greenstick fractures, in which a bone cracks only on one side, much like what happens when a living tree branch breaks. |
