Word.ws English Dictionary

hangman's fracture

hangman's fracture noun: a fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.

Noun

hangman's fracture

  1. (colloquial) A fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.

Questions about hangman's fracture

What does hangman's fracture mean?
Hangman's fracture means a fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.
What part of speech is hangman's fracture?
Hangman's fracture is a noun.

Words near hangman's fracture in the dictionary

  1. Hanglem
  2. hangles
  3. Hanglid
  4. hangman
  5. hangman paradox
  6. hangman's fracture
  7. hangman's jig
  8. hangman's noose
  9. hangman's nooses
  10. hangman's wages
  11. hangmanship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hangman's fracture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hangman's fracture.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hangman%27s_fracture. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.