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stress fracture

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers march fracture.


stress fracture

  1. See under fracture


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"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.

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