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impaction

N การชน การปะทะ การ กระทบ ผลกระทบ kan-chon

impaction

N การอัด แน่น การ อุดตัน kan-ad-nan

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMPACTION

Im *pac "tion, n. Etym: [L. impactio a striking: cf. F. impaction. ]

1. (Surg.)

Defn: The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2. An immovable packing; (Med. ), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

New American Oxford Dictionary

impaction

im pac tion |imˈpakSHən ɪmˈpækʃən | ▶noun Medicine the condition of being or process of becoming impacted, esp. of feces in the intestine.

Oxford Dictionary

impaction

im |pac ¦tion |ɪmˈpakʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Medicine the condition of being or process of becoming impacted, especially of faeces in the intestine.