adjective

• 1 technical Reduced to minute particles or fragments.

  ‘finely comminuted and amorphous materials’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The results indicate a significant quantity of sand and silt in the samples consists of carbonate material, possibly comprising comminuted fossils.’
  • ‘The ribbon could be used for specialty applications, but is most often comminuted into flake powder for subsequent degassing and consolidation.’
  • ‘The carbonate component is represented by rounded and polished grains of comminuted molluscs.’
  • ‘The mudstone drapes contain very finely comminuted plant debris.’

  Synonyms

  fine-grained, powdery, dusty, chalky, floury, powdered, ground, granulated, crushed, pulverized

  1. 1.1Medicine (of a fracture) producing multiple bone splinters.
     ‘a grossly comminuted humeral fracture’
     More example sentences

     • ‘most avian fractures tend to be comminuted’
     • ‘Beneath the muscles, and on the same side, I found an extensive comminuted fracture, the bone being broken into eight or nine different portions, and driven in upon the brain.’
     • ‘If any instability is noted after reduction or the fracture is comminuted, the patient should be referred to an orthopedist.’
     • ‘‘Our club doctor Mark Waller has confirmed that he suffered a comminuted fracture of the tibia and fracture of the fibula in his left leg.’’
     • ‘One broken wrist, comminuted, and one rule-out internal bleeding.’
     • ‘Imagine an open displaced angulated comminuted clavicle fracture.’