impacted tooth

1. 1.

   a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally

   Synonymsimpaction

   Broaderdisorder

Questions about impacted tooth

What does impacted tooth mean?

impacted tooth means "a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally".

What is another word for impacted tooth?

Close synonyms include impaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impacted tooth a common word?

impacted tooth 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.