"impaction" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪmˈpækʃən/ Forms: impactions [plural]
Rhymes: -ækʃən Etymology: From Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|impingere||to dash against, impinge}} Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} impaction (countable and uncountable, plural impactions)
  1. Compression; the packing together of loose matter. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-impaction-en-noun-nZEchopr
  2. something packed together tightly; a mass of densely-packed matter Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-impaction-en-noun-EY8Ou-1c
  3. (medicine) A solid, immobile bulk of stool. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-impaction-en-noun-sOr38jGQ Topics: medicine, sciences
  4. (dentistry) Failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying bone, excessive soft tissue, or other factor. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Dentistry, Feces Translations (failure of a tooth to erupt): enclavement [masculine] (French), inclusion [feminine] (French), impactação [feminine] (Portuguese), retenção [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-impaction-en-noun-vaJSmaOA Disambiguation of Feces: 12 13 9 66 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 19 12 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 22 5 67 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 19 9 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 22 5 68 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 11 18 9 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 10 20 11 59 Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'failure of a tooth to erupt': 6 4 7 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: earwax impaction, fecal impaction

Inflected forms

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