impaction

impaction has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something
• n.. a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally
• n.. a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon
• n.. the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed