adjective
- tightly or immovably wedged in.
- Dentistry. noting a tooth so confined in its socket as to be incapable of normal eruption.
- driven together; tightly packed.
- densely populated or crowded; overcrowded: an impacted school district.
adjective
- (of a tooth) unable to erupt, esp because of being wedged against another tooth below the gum
- (of a fracture) having the jagged broken ends wedged into each other
adj.
- Wedged together at the broken ends. Used of a fractured bone.
- Placed in the alveolus in a manner prohibiting eruption into a normal position. Used of a tooth.
- Packed in or wedged in such a manner so as to fill or block an organ or a passage.