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unimpacted


adjective

  1. tightly or immovably wedged in.
  2. Dentistry. noting a tooth so confined in its socket as to be incapable of normal eruption.
  3. driven together; tightly packed.
  4. densely populated or crowded; overcrowded: an impacted school district.

adjective

  1. (of a tooth) unable to erupt, esp because of being wedged against another tooth below the gum
  2. (of a fracture) having the jagged broken ends wedged into each other

adj.

  1. Wedged together at the broken ends. Used of a fractured bone.
  2. Placed in the alveolus in a manner prohibiting eruption into a normal position. Used of a tooth.
  3. Packed in or wedged in such a manner so as to fill or block an organ or a passage.
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