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impact
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have an impact on someone or something
to leave an impression on someone or something. The sharp change in interest rates had an impact on the housing market. Your story really had an impact on me.
See also: have

impact (up)on someone or something

[for something] to have an effect on someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) This plant closing will impact upon the local economy for years to come. The day's troubles impacted on Rachel quite seriously.

upon impact

Fig. at the place or time of an impact. The car crumpled upon impact with the brick wall. The man who fell from the top of the building died on impact.
See also: upon


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When this occurs, waste will not pass beyond the fecal impaction and pressure will begin to build on the abdomen and lower back.
Topics of the 34 chapters include unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, rotational alignment, the minimally invasive subvastus approach, cementless fixation, soft tissue balancing in revision arthroplasty, articulating spacers for infected knee replacements, impaction bone grafting, and metal augments.
1,2) Common sites of impaction are the lower tonsillar pole, base of the tongue, vallecula, and cervical esophagus.
 
 
 
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