Associations to the word «Occlusion»

OCCLUSION, noun. The process of occluding, or something that occludes.

OCCLUSION, noun. (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.

OCCLUSION, noun. (medicine) (dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.

OCCLUSION, noun. (meteorology) An occluded front.

OCCLUSION, noun. (linguistics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.

OCCLUSION, noun. (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.

OCCLUSION, noun. (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

OCCLUSION BODIES, noun. Plural of occlusion body

OCCLUSION BODY, noun. (virology) A crystalline protein matrix which occludes the nucleocapsid in some viruses.

OCCLUSION, noun. Closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel).

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

OCCLUSION, noun. (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed.

OCCLUSION, noun. An obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe".

OCCLUSION, noun. The act of blocking.