IMPACTIONS

Noun

impactions

plural of impaction

Anagrams

• miscaption

Source: Wiktionary


IMPACTION

Im*pac"tion, n. Etym: [L. impactio a striking : cf. F. impaction.]

1. (Surg.)

Definition: The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2. An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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