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Definition of Comminuted
1. Adjective. Reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing. ¹
2. Verb. (past of comminute) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comminuted
1. comminute [v] - See also: comminute
Medical Definition of Comminuted
1. Broken into several pieces; denoting especially a fractured bone. Origin: L. Com-minuo, pp. -minutus, to make smaller, break into pieces, fr. Minor, less (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comminuted
Literary usage of Comminuted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"The importance attached to every case of compound comminuted fracture of the
patella, associated with ..."
2. I. The Mechanism of dislocations and fracture of the hip: Or, Rapid by Henry Jacob Bigelow (1900)
"The alleged injury thus described detaches the entire neck from the shaft, and
is generally represented in museums by specimens, the comminuted fragments of ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1805)
"He had sustained a comminuted fracture of the fore-arm, in consequence of a kick
from a vicious horse. The ulna was smashed into pieces about three inches ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"The purse-string suture has its main application in blow fractures which are
simple, are extensively comminuted, and are unattended by rapid and great joint ..."
5. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"and to the under surface of the frontal lobe. It is sometimes called the Lamina
genu. comminuted. ..."
6. The Montreal Medical Journal edited by George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross (1879)
"Case of Compound comminuted Fracture of Leg.—Amputation with Antiseptic
precautions.—Recovery.—Under the care of DR. RODDICK. ..."
7. A Manual for the practice of surgery by Thomas Bryant (1879)
"comminuted fractures are generally the result of a concentrated local violence,
and consequently found chiefly in the vault, and are mostly pound (Fig. 65. ..."
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