impacted fracture

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   fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other broken end

   Broaderfracture

Questions about impacted fracture

What does impacted fracture mean?

impacted fracture means "fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other broken end".

Is impacted fracture a common word?

impacted fracture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.