COMMINUTED

pp. Reduced to fine particles; pulverized; triturated.

comminuted

com mi nut ed |ˈkäməˌn (y )o͞otəd ˈkɑmənjudəd | ▶adjective technical reduced to minute particles or fragments. • Medicine (of a fracture ) producing multiple bone splinters. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of comminute, from Latin comminut- ‘broken into pieces, ’ from the verb comminuere, from com- ‘together ’ + minuere ‘lessen. ’

comminuted

comminuted |ˈkɒmɪnjuːtɪd | ▶adjective technical reduced to minute particles or fragments. • Medicine (of a fracture ) producing multiple bone splinters. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: past participle of comminute, from Latin comminut- ‘broken into pieces ’, from the verb comminuere, from com- ‘together ’ + minuere ‘lessen ’.