impacted, a.
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Driven together or close. [1913 Webster]
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Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar; as, to extract an impacted third molar. [PJC]
Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.