Definition of Occlude
1. Verb. Block passage through. "Obstruct the path"
Specialized synonyms: Block Off, Blockade, Barricade, Barricado, Barricade, Asphyxiate, Choke, Stifle, Suffocate, Tie Up, Dam, Dam Up, Block Out, Screen, Earth Up, Land Up, Bar, Barricade, Block, Block Off, Block Up, Blockade, Stop, Back Up, Choke, Choke Off, Clog, Clog Up, Congest, Foul
Generic synonyms: Hinder, Impede
Derivative terms: Blocking, Impediment, Obstructer, Obstruction, Obstructive, Obstructor, Obturator, Occlusion, Occlusive
Antonyms: Free
Definition of Occlude
1. v. t. To shut up; to close.
Definition of Occlude
1. Verb. To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block an opening. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Occlude
1. to close or stop up [v -CLUDED, -CLUDING, -CLUDES]
Medical Definition of Occlude
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1. To shut up; to close.
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Literary usage of Occlude
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1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"There was extensive atheroma of the right coronary artery, so as almost to occlude
its 1 umen. The left coronary artery was patulous in its proximal portion ..."
2. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"... in the blood-current, and enter and occlude some of the cerebral arteries,
causing softness of the brain, by cutting off the due supply of nourishment. ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"With regard to the presence of oxygen in silver, Graham found that silver heated
and allowed to cool in oxygen could occlude 0745 volume of oxygen, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1885)
"they generally occlude in cutting. Indeed, the incisors and cuspids ... They do
not occlude when they are at rest, and they do not occlude in mastication. ..."
5. Atlas and Epitome of Operative Ophthalmology by Otto Haab (1905)
"As soon as the point has penetrated the cornea, the shaft (between 1 and 2) should
at once completely occlude the wound. For in the case of children it may ..."
6. Essentials of Orthodontia: With Especial Reference to Nomenclature by Van Broadus Dalton (1914)
"The evil is thus enhanced, for the first permanent molars being held further
apart than normal, erupt until they occlude and become firmly locked, ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"After the occlusion of the carotid it would be decided if in that case it were
advisable to occlude the subclavian. Were I to conclude that it was advisable ..."
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