This question was a familiar question among the candidates and their performance was good.  In part (a) candidates correctly define fracture although, few of the candidates wrote wrong definition of fracture as accident happening on the road, at home or in the school.
In part (b) many candidates performed very well while few candidates wrote blunders such as complex, serious, bony, and disillusioned and fractionalized as types of fracture.
In part (c) many candidates wrote wrong answers such as bone breaking into pieces yawning, victims cry profusely, fainting and vomiting as sign and symptoms of fracture. Although few candidates correctly wrote reasonable points.
However, the expected answers were as follows:                                                              
10(a)    FRACTURE

            A fracture is a break/crack in the bone.

 

 

           
                                                                                                                                                           
(b)        TYPES OF FRACTURE

• greenstick
• complicated
• simple/closed
• compound/open
• comminuted
• impacted
• multiple 
• depressed                                                                                                                               

  (c)      SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF FRACTURE

• severe pain at the site of injury
• swelling at the site of injury
• loss control/inability to move the part
• deformity/look shapeless and irregular
• shock
• crepitus/a coarse bony grating
• unnatural movement/leaping
• tenderness
• internal bleeding due to damage of blood vessels
• skin discolouration/bruising.