Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of occluding.
- noun Something that occludes.
- noun Medicine An obstruction of an anatomical passage, as of an artery by plaque.
- noun Dentistry The alignment of the teeth of the upper and lower jaws when brought together.
- noun The process of occluding air masses.
- noun An occluded front.
- noun Linguistics Closure at some point in the vocal tract that blocks the flow of air in the production of an oral or nasal stop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In dentistry, the fitting into each other of the cusps of the opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
- noun A shutting up; a closing; specifically, in pathology, the total or partial closure of a vessel, cavity, or hollow organ; imperforation.
- noun In physics and chem., the act of occluding, or absorbing and concealing; the state of being occluded. See
occlude .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
- noun (Med.) The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
- noun (Chem. & Physics) the phenomenon of absorbing gases, as exhibited by platinum, palladium, iron, or charcoal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
occluding , or something thatoccludes . - noun medicine Anything that
obstructs orcloses avessel orcanal . - noun medicine, dentistry The
alignment of theteeth when upper and lowerjaws are brought together. - noun meteorology An
occluded front . - noun linguistics A
closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop. - noun physics The
absorption of agas orliquid by a substance such as ametal . - noun computing The
blocking of theview of part of animage by another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)
- noun (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
- noun the act of blocking
- noun an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- noun (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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And, two, these were the travel-and-waiting-room socks on the day (last November?) when I went to the Eye Pavilion and learned that retinal vein occlusion has involved permanent damage to my sight.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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And, two, these were the travel-and-waiting-room socks on the day (last November?) when I went to the Eye Pavilion and learned that retinal vein occlusion has involved permanent damage to my sight.
Archive 2009-09-01 Jean 2009
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Fetal lung growth after short-term tracheal occlusion is linearly related to intratracheal pressure.
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Current feature-based systems have accuracy that tops out at 65 percent when some form of occlusion is introduced.
Engineers Test Highly Accurate Face Recognition « Isegoria 2008
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RCTs are not the end-all in regard to side effects with recent examples being cardiac outcomes of selective NSAIDs and the long term occlusion of drug eluting stents.
Archive 2007-01-01 james gaulte 2007
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RCTs are not the end-all in regard to side effects with recent examples being cardiac outcomes of selective NSAIDs and the long term occlusion of drug eluting stents.
Observational data is important but how do we analyze the data. james gaulte 2007
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I was looking to see what the word occlusion meant.
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This could be a sculptor trying to capture a crucial feature of two-dimensional perspective -- a feature called "occlusion" -- whereby space is mapped out by showing what parts of one object overlap another.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Riccio at the National Gallery Blake Gopnik 2010
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The jaws are laterally compressed and gently curved, and though the bill tips meet when the jaws are in occlusion, a gap is usually visible part way along the jaws, even when they’re closed.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The jaws are laterally compressed and gently curved, and though the bill tips meet when the jaws are in occlusion, a gap is usually visible part way along the jaws, even when they’re closed.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
chained_bear commented on the word occlusion
"...when he learnt that the grape in question was only one of the nine that made up the charge of the launch's four-pounder, he at once had him seized up by the heels, ran for the stomach-pump and forced a large quantity of tepid salt water tinged with rum into his body, reflecting with pleasure, as among the agonized retching he heard the clang of the ball in the basin, that he had cured his patient not only of probably mortal occlusion but of any taste for spiritous liquors for some time to come."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 278
February 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word occlusion
Eeew!
February 24, 2008