IMPACTION
\ɪmpˈakʃən], \ɪmpˈakʃən], \ɪ_m_p_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of IMPACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon
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the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed
By Princeton University
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a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon
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the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A fracture of the cranium, ribs, or sternum, with depression of some of the fragments and projection of others externally. See Ecpiesma.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] A driving or forcing into; a lodgment of one part so firmly into another that it cannot come away without forcible removal; as I. of a fragment of bone (into another), I. of feces (in the intestine). I. of teeth, the fixation of teeth in such a way as to prevent their eruption.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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