Occlusion Synonyms

ə-klo͝ozhən
The act of blocking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blockage
  2. closure
  3. block
  4. stop
  5. stoppage
(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. occluded-front

Words Related to Occlusion

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Occlusion Sentence Examples

  • A dentist will check a patient's occlusion by watching how the teeth make contact when the child bites down normally.

  • The first successful fetoscopic temporary tracheal occlusion for CDH was performed in 1996.

  • Is there anything that can be done to prevent a retinal vessel occlusion?

  • If a piece of bark and cortex are torn off, the occlusion takes longer, because the tissues have to creep over the exposed area of wood; and the same is true of a transverse cut severing the branch, as may be seen in any properly pruned tree.

  • Such frost-cracks, sun-cracks, &c., may then be slowly healed over by callus, but if the conditions for necrosis recur the crack may be again opened, or if Fungi, &c., interfere with occlusion, the healing is prevented; in such cases the local necrosis may give rise to cankers.

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