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noun
A distal fracture of the radius causing a dorsal displacement of the distal fragment, typically occurring as a result of a fall on an outstretched hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
Named after Irish surgeon Abraham Colles (1773–1843), who first described it in 1814.
