Crossword-Solution: COMMINUTED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comminuted | imp. & p. p. | of Comminute |
We have 2 clues for the answer “COMMINUTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRACTURE involving bone shattered into pieces | 1 answer |
| FRACTURE, type of | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEZCAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMMINUTED (5)
The next motor-bomb descended into the fishing village, the comminuted particles of which, being mostly of light material, floated far out to sea.
The patient, a workman of twenty-nine, while cutting down a gum-tree, was struck by a branch as thick as a man's arm, which fell from 100 feet overhead, inflicting a compound comminuted fracture of the cranium.
Morton mentions a patient of forty-seven, who was injured in a railroad accident near Phoenixville, Pa.; there was a compound comminuted fracture of the skull involving the left temporal, spheroid, and superior maxillary bones.
Bird reports a compound comminuted fracture of the left temporal region, with loss of bone, together with six drams of brain-substance, which, however, was followed by recovery.
The boy was trephined, and the comminuted fragments removed; in about six weeks recovery was nearly complete.
Quotes with COMMINUTED (1)
Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms "fracture", "compound fracture," and "compound comminuted fracture," all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains.