impacted fracture

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
impacted fracture
    n 1: fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other
         broken end
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impacted \Im*pact"ed\, a.
   1. Driven together or close.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [PJC]

   {Impacted fracture} (Surg.), a fracture in which the
      fragments are driven into each other so as to be
      immovable.
      [1913 Webster]
    

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