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Impacted   Listen
adjective
Impacted  adj.  
1.
Driven together or close.
2.
Specifically: (Dentistry) Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; of teeth, especially the third molar; as, to extract an impacted third molar.
Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.





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"Impacted" Quotes from Famous Books



... momenta animate motor neurons and muscles and preside over most of the combinations. Some of the elements speak with a still small voice raucous with age. The first spontaneous movements of infancy are hieroglyphs, to most of which we have as yet no good key. Many elements are so impacted and felted together that we can not analyze them. Many are extinct and many perhaps made but once and only hint things we can not apprehend. Later the rehearsals are fuller, and their significance more intelligible, and in boyhood and youth ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall


Words linked to "Impacted" :   impacted tooth, compact, wedged, impacted fracture


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