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Impacted adj.

Driven together or close.

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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Etymology of 'Impacted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impacted" Quotes from Famous Books

... becomes tense and unbent from its arched form, thereby contracting abdominal space, which now has no compensation for this loss of space, since the abdominal parietes are also rendered firm and unyielding. It is at this crisis of muscular effort that the abdominal viscera become impacted together; and, acting by their own elasticity against the muscular force, make an exit for themselves through the weakest parts of the abdominal walls, and thus herniae of various kinds are produced. The most common situations of abdominal herniae are at the ...

— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... 303 is obtained by impacting the horizontal or twined series of threads. The surface is nearly identical with that of the closely impacted example of the preceding type (Fig. 292). The peculiarities are more marked when colors are used. When the doubled and twisted series of strands are placed far apart and the opposing series are laid side by side a pleasing result is given, as shown in Fig. 304 and in the body of the conical basket ...

— A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament • William H. Holmes

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