A condition in which two things are impacted.<\/p>\n
Cramping or tight wedging of materials or parts in a limited space, especially feces lodged in the lower colon.<\/p>\n
A term applied to a condition in which two things are firmly lodged together. For example, when one piece of bone is driven within another following a fracture, this is known as an impacted fracture; when a tooth is firmly lodged in its socket so that its eruption is prevented, this is known as dental impaction. Intractable constipation is termed faecal impaction.<\/p>\n
A condition of being tightly wedged into a part, as when the eruption of a tooth is blocked by other teeth; the overloading of an organ, as the feces in the bowels.<\/p>\n
A situation where earwax has accumulated and densely compacted within the outer ear, leading to the obstruction of the external ear canal.<\/p>\n
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A condition in which two things are impacted. Cramping or tight wedging of materials or parts in a limited space, especially feces lodged in the lower colon. A term applied to a condition in which two things are firmly lodged together. For example, when one piece of bone is driven within another following a fracture, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i"],"yoast_head":"\n