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Segmental(medicine)
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segmental fracture (medicine) and Chu (sh)


segmental fracture (medicine)


segmental fracture


A fracture in two parts of the same bone.

Synonym: double fracture.


Chu (sh)




or Ch'u

One of the states contending for power in China, 770-221 BC.

Chu emerged in the 8th century BC in the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley, then not a part of China. It struggled with Other states for supreme control over China in the 3rd century BC but lost out to Qin, which formed the first great Chinese empire.