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comminuted

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comminuted /com·mi·nut·ed/ (kom´in-ldbomact?id) broken or crushed into small pieces, as a comminuted fracture.
com·mi·nut·ed (km-ntd)
adj.
Broken into fragments. Used of a fractured bone.

comminuted
broken or crushed into small pieces, as a comminuted fracture.
Comminuted fracture of the tibia. By permission from Slatter D, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, Saunders, 2002

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Key statement: The rubber particles, at a room temperature below the glass transition temperature, are introduced into a comminuting device concurrent with the introduction of an inert gas coolant at a temperature below about -75[degrees]F and are comminuted at a rate proportional to the average particle size of the introduced rubber particles to an average size within the range of crumb or powder rubber particles.
The patient was a 68-year old-woman who sustained a comminuted intertrochanteric fracture of the left hip when she slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk.
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