gãy vụn
Definition
- Adjective:
- Comminuted: A medical and anatomical term describing a bone that is fractured into multiple small pieces or fragments.
- Shattered into fragments: More generally, describing something hard and brittle that has broken into many tiny, often irregular, pieces.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Bệnh nhân bị gãy vụn xương cánh tay. (The patient has a comminuted fracture of the arm bone.)
- Chiếc ly rơi xuống sàn và gãy vụn. (The glass fell to the floor and shattered into fragments.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is highly specialized and is most commonly used in clinical, medical, or scientific contexts (e.g., biology, anatomy, materials science) rather than in everyday conversation.
Variants and Related Words
- Gãy (v): to break, to fracture.
- Cành cây bị gãy vì gió. (The tree branch broke because of the wind.)
- Vụn (adj/n): crumbled, in crumbs; fragments.
- Bánh mì vụn. (Breadcrumbs.)
Synonyms
- Comminuted: (Medical) fractured into several pieces.
- Shattered: broken violently into many pieces.
- Fragmented: broken into fragments.
Notes on Usage
- "Gãy vụn" is a compound adjective. Its primary and most precise meaning is the medical one ("comminuted"). In non-medical contexts, it vividly describes an object breaking into numerous small, often unusable, pieces, implying a more severe break than just "gãy" (broken).