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- adjective
Reduced to smallparticles or topowder , as bycrushing orpulverizing . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
comminute .
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Examples
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When he got to Austin, they got more x-rays and they found it's more what's known as a comminuted fracture.
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What they now figured out is that this is more of what's called a comminuted fracture, sort of a common high energy impact, flipped over the handlebars.
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Organic constituents, such as comminuted shells, and silicious and calcareous exuviae of infusorial animals and plants, are sometimes found mingled in considerable quantities with mineral sands.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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It reads in part, There has been complete interval healing of the mildly comminuted fracture deformity of the proximal ulna as well as the obliquely oriented intra-articular fracture of the radial head.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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It reads in part, There has been complete interval healing of the mildly comminuted fracture deformity of the proximal ulna as well as the obliquely oriented intra-articular fracture of the radial head.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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It can be comminuted (insert number of fragments), compound, angulated (insert degree of angulation), spiral, oblique, transverse, epiphyseal (four main types), diaphyseal or other things.
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And then he got the news yesterday that it was more comminuted than he thought.
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These are thickened with cooked vegetables or fish passed through a sieve or comminuted by some other device such as a blender.
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The soil contains so much comminuted talc and mica from the adjacent hills that it seems as if mixed with spermaceti.
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From its base could be traced clear to the edge of the dank morass tiny lines of comminuted shell as plainly marked as the small particles which lie in rows on a beech after a receding tide.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
erinoftheyear commented on the word comminuted
It's sad. But i like it.
August 15, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word comminuted
"'I had to take that foot off after all: such a mass of comminuted bone.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 232
March 16, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word comminuted
"Fractures of the breastbone are rather uncommon. They may result from trauma, such as when a driver's chest is forced into the steering column of a car in a car accident. A fracture of the sternum is usually a comminuted fracture."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternum
July 9, 2015
knitandpurl commented on the word comminuted
"He had a feeling for the inanimate, too, for ruins and comminuted landscapes, places that have been reduced to their smallest units by the forces of nature and history."
"Poetry of the Disregarded" by Teju Cole, p 42 of Known and Strange Things
August 18, 2016