pseudofracture
Medicine
noun
(Originally) a line of radiolucency in the cortex of a bone, seen especially in various metabolic bone diseases; (later also) any lesion or artefactual finding resembling a fracture in an X-ray or radionuclide scan.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in American Journal of Roentgenology.
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