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n. The process of occluding.

n. Something that occludes.

n. Medicine An obstruction or a closure of a passageway or vessel.

n. Dentistry The alignment of the teeth of the upper and lower jaws when brought together.

n. Meteorology The process of occluding air masses.

n. Meteorology An occluded front.

n. Linguistics Closure at some point in the vocal tract that blocks the flow of air in the production of an oral or nasal stop.

n. The process of occluding, or something that occludes.

n. Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.

n. The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.

n. An occluded front.

n. A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.

n. The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.

n. The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

n. The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

n. The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.

n. A shutting up; a closing; specifically, in pathology, the total or partial closure of a vessel, cavity, or hollow organ; imperforation.

n. In physics and chem., the act of occluding, or absorbing and concealing; the state of being occluded. See occlude.

n. In dentistry, the fitting into each other of the cusps of the opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.

n. closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

n. (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

n. the act of blocking

n. an obstruction in a pipe or tube

n. (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

"Fetal lung growth after short-term tracheal occlusion is linearly related to intratracheal pressure."

position    spatial relation    front   

occlusion of gases    intestinal occlusion   

imperforation    closure    obstruction    absorption   

allusion    collusion    conclusion    confusion    contusion    delusion    diffusion    disillusion    exclusion    extrusion   

patency    atherosclerosis    thrombosis    embolism    vasoconstriction    vasospasm    calcification    blockage    perfusion    stenosis