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What is the difference in healing time between a broken collar and a fractured collar bone?

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None: A broken collar bone and a fractured collar bone mean the same thing: there is a break or fracture in the clavicle (collar bone).

Answered 10/16/2015

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Broken or fractured?: There is no difference. Broken and fractured mean the same thing. Fractured is the technical medical term for 'broken.'.

Answered 5/12/2021

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