impaction

impaction is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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.
3. noun. a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something

   Synonyms: impingement

4. noun. a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally
5. noun. a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon
6. noun. the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed

Synonyms

impingement

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in impaction:

ptomainic

Common word forms

impactions, impactionize

Words from these letters

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