Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other broken end;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Impacted \Im*pact"ed\, a.
1. Driven together or close.
[1913 Webster]
2. Specifically: (Dentistry) 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
impacted fracture
n 1: fracture in which one broken end is wedged into the other
broken end