Injury or Poisoning
orbital fractures
[ awr-bi-tl frak-cherz ]
Subclass of:
Maxillofacial Injuries; Skull Fractures
Definitions related to orbital fractures:
  • A break in the orbital bone.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Fractures of the bones in the orbit, which include parts of the frontal, ethmoidal, lacrimal, and sphenoid bones and the maxilla and zygoma.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (fractured orbit of skull) A partial or complete breakage of the orbit of skull.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Orbital fractures are commonly seen with midfacial trauma. Fracture severity ranges from small minimally displaced fractures of an isolated wall that require no surgical intervention to major disruption of the orbit as seen in the images below.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
  • The orbit is one of a pair of bony cavities each housing the globe and associated structures. The orbit is formed by 7 bones: zygomatic, sphenoid, maxillary, frontal, lacrimal, palatine, and ethmoid.
    Epocrates
    Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
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