OBTURATOR
\ɒbt͡ʃəɹˈe͡ɪtə], \ɒbtʃəɹˈeɪtə], \ɒ_b_tʃ_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_ə]\
Definitions of OBTURATOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
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A camera shutter.
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That which closes or stops an opening.
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An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
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Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
By Oddity Software
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Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
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A camera shutter.
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That which closes or stops an opening.
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An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
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Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
By Noah Webster.
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1. Any structure that occludes an opening. 2. Noting a large opening in the lower part of the os innominatum, the obturator foramen, the occluding membrane of the same, or any of several parts in relation to this foramen. 3. A plate closing a defect or cleft in the hard palate.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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That which closes an opening or cavity or which pertains to a structure that effects such closure (see under canal, foramen, membrane, and Table of Nerves); specifically, in anatomy, a muscle which closes an opening. See Table of Muscles, under muscle.[Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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