Avulsion (fx): Where a bone is separated or pulled away by an attached ligament or tendon.

Barton’s (fx): An intraarticular fracture which occurs at the posterior lip of the distal radius.

Baseball (fx): A fracture of the distal phalanx.

Bennett (fx): A fracture that occurs at the base of the first metacarpal and fracture lines entering the carpometacarpal joint.

Blowout or tripod (fx): This type of fracture is caused from a direct blow out to the orbit, or zygoma and maxilla.

Butterfly (fx): A fracture with two fragments on each side, with a wedge-shaped separate fragments. Which looks like a butterfly’s wings.

Chip (fx): A piece of a bone fragment.

Colles’ (fx): A fracture where the distal radius is fractured with the distal fragment displaced posteriorly.

Comminuted (fx): This fracture is a resulting of a bone being splintered or crushed, which results in two or more fragments.

Simple (fx): A fracture that does not break through the skin.