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Medical Definition of comminuted

: being a fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed into numerous pieces a comminuted elbow fracture

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“Comminuted.” The Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/comminuted. Accessed 8 December 2019.

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