Another word for plugging

The right thing to do is to open the belly in the middle line, search for a wound in the liver and treat it by deep sutures, or by plugging it with gauze.

This disease depends upon the presence of a bacillus which grows rapidly at the back of the throat and in the airpassages specially of children, causing the formation of a membrane which, by plugging the windpipe, causes suffocation and death.

And although effects may some times be produced in a mechanical manner by bacteria plugging capillaries of important organs, e.g.

Two audio inputs - perfect for plugging an audio mic or guitar into GarageBand.

This lipoemic condition may cause embolism, the plugging especially occurring in the lung capillaries.