Murtumissa

Murtumissa is a Finnish grammatical form that translates roughly as “in fractures.” It is the inessive plural of the noun murtuma, meaning fracture, and is used to describe the state of having multiple fractures, typically in medical contexts. The form appears when speaking about a patient or a body part that is fractured in several places.

Because Finnish uses suffixes to indicate case and number, murtumissa is formed from the stem murtuma (or murtum-) by adding the -issa suffix in the inessive plural. It is most commonly encountered in clinical notes and hospital reports, or in discussions of injuries where several bones are fractured. A closely related expression is useita murtumia, meaning several fractures.

Usage note: The term is not a standalone concept outside medical language; in everyday language Finns would usually say useita murtumia or simply murtumia when referring to fractures. Murtumissa emphasizes the state of being fractured in multiple locations rather than a single break.

See also: murtuma, bone fracture, fracture (in medical terminology).