How to Use impaction in a Sentence

impaction

noun
  • With an impaction, ear wax ends up at the end of your ear canal and directly next to the eardrum.
    — Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Fecal impaction occurs when a large amount of hard stool becomes trapped in the rectum.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 10 June 2026
  • Further imaging of the hip revealed a mild femoral head impaction fracture.
    — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Too many days with no bowel movements could lead to fecal impaction, where stool hardens and remains in the rectum.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Both horses died as a result of severe gravel and sand impaction in their digestive systems.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • People with food impaction may gag, vomit, or salivate excessively.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The monthly expressing of the sacs helps with the impaction, but your dog might still be feeling some discomfort, which is soothed by dragging her bottom on something soft.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2017
  • People with fecal impaction require medical treatment to have a bowel movement.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 10 June 2026
  • Fernandez explains that small particles get removed by diffusion and larger ones by impaction.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2020
  • In some cases, constipation can even cause fecal impaction, which means the stool is too hard to pass without medication or a procedure.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Conversely, stool impaction may lead to incontinence, which is why a thorough history and exam is so critical.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Several conditions can cause vomiting, including fecal impaction, so your best bet is to get to your doctor quickly for an assessment.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And sand colic -- the gut impaction that killed Tony, the horse found with 44 pounds of gravel in his gut -- often occurs when horses are fed in areas with abundant sand and gravel.
    — Drew F. Lawrence and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Larger particles will stick to the fibers in the filter, known as interception, while other air particles will become embedded into the fibers, through impaction.
    — Fiona Tapp, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
  • Inadequate fluid intake can cause gas, bloating, abdominal pain, or constipation, as well as risk of choking, blockages, or stool impaction.
    — Suzie Finkel Ms, Rd, Cdn, Health, 26 May 2024
  • Inadequate fluid intake can cause the supplement to swell and lead to choking, blockages, or stool impaction, as well as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and constipation.
    — Suzanne Finkel, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Fecal impaction is most common in the elderly and in patients with neurodegenerative illnesses like Parkinson's.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • To report the ingestion of an unusual large foreign object with hypopharyngeal impaction, complications, and treatment.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2015
  • Conditions like chronic constipation, fecal impaction, and colorectal cancer require treatment.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Recent emergencies have included animals falling off a boat, lacerations from dog fights on the beach, clamshell ingestion, sand impaction, which can cause obstructions in the digestive system, and of course Lyme disease.
    — Sylvie Bigar, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • After the Procedure Most people feel almost immediate relief from constipation and impaction symptoms after a manual disimpaction.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Just 35 percent of US companies have analyzed the near-term impact of the departure of older workers and just 17 percent have considered longer-term impactions over the next decade, according to the survey.
    — Mark Miller, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2018
  • The four mechanisms are inertial impaction, interception, diffusion, and electrostatic attraction.
    — USA Today, 7 Jan. 2022

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