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comminuted
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What does comminuted mean?
adjective
- Reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing.
verb
- simple past and past participle of comminute
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Stones, and sand, the finely comminuted particles of stones ground off by ceaseless attrition.
Nankivell speaks of a remarkable recovery in an individual who suffered compound comminuted fracture of both legs, and fracture of the skull.
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Fractures may be classified as simple and compound, complete and incomplete, comminuted or splinter.
Recent experiments, however, have shown that in the case of rivers flowing through thickly peopled regions, and especially where the refuse from industrial establishments is discharged into them, the finely comminuted material received from sewers and factories sometimes clogs up the interstices between the particles of sand and gravel which compose the bed and banks, and the water is consequently confined to the channel and no longer diffuses itself laterally through the adjacent soil.