Impacted /(?)/
Im·pact·ed
Impacted
a.
- Driven together or close.
- Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar; as, to extract an impacted third molar. (Dentistry)
Phrases & Compounds
- Impacted fracture
- a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.