comminuted
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
comminuted /ˈkɒmɪnjuːtɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 technical reduced to minute particles or fragments.
- 2 Medicine (of a fracture) producing multiple bone splinters.
– derivatives
comminution noun.
comminution noun.
– origin C17 (earlier (C16) as comminution): past part. of comminute, from L. comminut-, comminuere ‘break into pieces’.
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