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Colles' fracture

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Colles' fracture /ˈkɒlɪs/

▶noun Medicine a fracture of the radius in the wrist with a characteristic backward displacement of the hand.

– origin C19: named after the Irish surgeon Abraham Colles.

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