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Fracture, It is true that fracture has not been defined in the Penal Code. It is sometimes though as in the case of Po Yi Maung v. Ma E Tin, A (1937) Rang 253 that the meaning of the word fracture would imply that there should be a break in the bone and that in the case of a skull bone it is not merely sufficient that there is a crack but that the crack must extend from the outer surface of the skull to the inner surface. In Mutukdhar Singh v. Emperor, A (1942) Pat 376, it was observed that if the evidence is merely that a none has been cut and there is nothing whatever to indicate the extent of the cut, whether a deep one or a mere scratch on the surface of the bone, it will be difficult to infer is a grievous hurt within the meaning of S. 320 of the Penal code. Both these assumptions are misleading. It is not necessary that a bone should be cut through and through or that the crack must extend from the outer to the inner surface or that there should be displacement of any fragment of...
Fractural
Pertaining to or consequent on a fracture...
Fractus augent h'reditatem
Fracture, It is true that fracture has not been defined in the Penal Code. It is sometimes though as in the case of Po Yi Maung v. Ma E Tin, A (1937) Rang 253 that the meaning of the word fracture would imply that there should be a break in the bone and that in the case of a skull bone it is not merely sufficient that there is a crack but that the crack must extend from the outer surface of the skull to the inner surface. In Mutukdhar Singh v. Emperor, A (1942) Pat 376, it was observed that if the evidence is merely that a none has been cut and there is nothing whatever to indicate the extent of the cut, whether a deep one or a mere scratch on the surface of the bone, it will be difficult to infer is a grievous hurt within the meaning of S. 320 of the Penal code. Both these assumptions are misleading. It is not necessary that a bone should be cut through and through or that the crack must extend from the outer to the inner surface or that there should be displacement of any fragment of...
Depressed facture
Depressed facture, is almost known as signature fracture or fractures is a la signature as their pattern at time resembles the weapon which caused it, Khambam Raja Reddy v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 2006 SC 3236...
Break
To strain apart to sever by fracture to divide with violence as to break a rope or chain to break a seal to break an axle to break rocks or coal to break a lock...
Conchoidal
Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell applied principally to a surface produced by fracture...
Contrafissure
A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow or at some distance from it...
Diastasis
A forcible separation of bones without fracture...
Felsite
A finegrained rock flintlike in fracture consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz...
Flabellation
The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance...
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