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Impaction

noun

The condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed.

A disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon.

A disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally. Synonym: impacted tooth.

A sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something. Synonym: impingement.

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"Impaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... eaten. It was then well known that if enough whole milk is eaten scurvy will not develop. Cohen and Mendel autopsied normal guinea pigs and found that the cecum was nearly always full of feces. On the other hand in autopsies of many pigs dead from scurvy only one-fourth were found to show the impaction of feces claimed by McCollum as cause of the disease. Milk is constipating to guinea pigs. Large amounts of milk should therefore have increased scurvy if the cause stated by McCollum was the real one. On the contrary large amounts of milk prevented ...

— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy

Words linked to "Impaction" : impact, impingement, impacted tooth, status, condition, crash, upset, disorder, smash