The act or process of breaking or crushing together; a joint fracture or comminuted break.
From Latin 'confractio,' the noun form derived from 'confringere.' The suffix '-tion' converts the verb action into a countable noun, used primarily in medical and technical terminology from the Middle Ages onward.
When archaeologists find ancient skeletons with 'confraction' injuries, they can tell a story of violence or accident—it's a specific medical term that tells you exactly how brutal an injury was.
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