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UK
/kəmˈɪnjuːt/
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VERB
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reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
grind the spices in a mortar
mash the garlic
How To Use comminute In A Sentence
- 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.
- For here again it is because the mouth fails to perform its office and fails even more completely-for birds have no teeth at all, nor any instrument whatsoever with which to comminute or grind down their food-it is, On the Parts of Animals
- * In exceptional cases it may be necessary to comminute a large foreign body such as a tooth plate. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- The soil contains so much comminuted talc and mica from the adjacent hills that it seems as if mixed with spermaceti. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
- The stomach is well muscled and churns the food about, helping to comminute it, but it can not take the place of the teeth. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
- It can be comminuted (insert number of fragments), compound, angulated (insert degree of angulation), spiral, oblique, transverse, epiphyseal (four main types), diaphyseal or other things. Expanding Medical Codes to 140,000 Is Rx for Futility
- Imagine an open displaced angulated comminuted (yes, this is a quiz of sorts) clavicle fracture.
- Organic constituents, such as comminuted shells, and silicious and calcareous exuviae of infusorial animals and plants, are sometimes found mingled in considerable quantities with mineral sands. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
- Comminuted fractures of the terminal parts of the diaphyses extending into joints. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation. The Evolution of Modern Medicine