"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: 25 13 7 55 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 19 13 52 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 18 19 18 46 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 19 19 38 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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