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Definitions: Occlusion |
OcclusionNoun1. Closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel). 2. (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft. 3. (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed. 4. An obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe". 5. The act of blocking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Occlusion \Oc*clu"sion\, noun. [See Occlude.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Aerospace | Specifically, the trapping of undisolved gas in a solid during solidification. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | The healing over, i. e. closing, of wounds on tree stems. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Process of progressive decrease of area of warm sector at the earth's surface, and its ultimate disappearance, by the junction of the cold air masses which initially precede the warm front and follo w the cold fron t. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A term used to denote either the absorption of a gas or of solids by a metal, or the absorption of an electrolyte by a precipitate. Generally used to indicate the penetration of the metal lattice by atoms or molecules of the occluded substance, sometimes with the formation of an interstitial compound. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: OcclusionSynonyms: block (n), blockage (n), closure (n), occluded front (n), stop (n), stoppage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Closure | Noun: closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up; Verb: obstruction; (hindrance); embolus; contraction; infarction; constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation, imperviousness; Adjective: impermeability; stopper. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Health | The repeat blood sample should be obtained with minimal venous occlusion and preferably with the patient fasting. (references) | |
For example, deafness due to meningitis does not necessarily limit the benefit of cochlear implantation in the absence of central nervous system complications, cochlear ossification, or cochlear occlusion. (references) | ||
Moyamoya disease is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder characterized by the narrowing or occlusion of major blood vessels leading into the brain, and the formation of abnormal blood vessels called moyamoya vessels. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Occlusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Occlusion" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 78 | 37,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "occlusion": Balloon Occlusion ♦ cold occlusion ♦ coronary occlusion ♦ Dental Occlusion ♦ Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion ♦ occlusion involontaire par les langes ♦ occlusion of gases ♦ Retinal Artery Occlusion ♦ Retinal Vein Occlusion ♦ tubal occlusion ♦ warm occlusion. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "occlusion": semi-occlusion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "occlusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pengim (delay, hindrance, holdback, inhibition, interruption, obstruction, preclusion, stumble), përputhje (accordance, consistency, consonance, correspondence, osculation), mbyllje e mirë, mbyllje (closing, closure, committal, conclusion, confinement, enclosure, entombment, finality, furl, impoundment, imprisonment, inclosure, locking, obturation, offishness, shutdown, windup), bllokim (block, blockage, blocking, deadlock, hold up, holding, impediment, jam, jam up, jamming, locking, logjam, obstruction, overlap, strangulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مدى إنطباق الأسنان, سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), إنسداد (jam, jamming, obstruction, obtuseness, stop, stoppage, stopping), إقفال (lock on), إطباق الأسنان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оклузия (stop), захапка, затваряне (closing, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, locking, restraint), запушване (block, closure, obstruction, stoppage, stopping), задържане на газове, задръстване (blockage, congestion, entanglement, foul, jam, obstruction, stoppage), преграждане (fencing, obstruction, screening), преграда (baffle, barricade, bulkhead, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, partition, railing, screen, septum, stanchion, traverse, web). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 锁柱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | absorbování. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overvoksning (heal over, rind gall), ortodontisk apparat (orthodontic appliance), okklusion (bite, bite pattern, bite type, occlusal form, pattern), occlusion, occlusio, tilstopning (blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging, fouling, loading, obstruction, plugging, sticking), tillukning, bidtype (bite pattern, bite type, occlusal form), bidstilling (occlusal position), bidmønster (bite pattern, bite type, occlusal form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | occlusie (bite, bite pattern, bite type, occlusal form, pattern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جفت شدگی(دندانها), انسداد (Bloc, Block, Blockade, Blockage, Choke, Let, Obstruction, Padlock, Stockade), بسته شدگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | okkluusio, palvettuminen, kyljestyminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | occlusion (occlusal form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Okklusion (occluded front), Verstopfung (astringency, block, blockage, constipation, engorgement, jam, obstruction), Biss (bite, nip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έγκλειση χημεία, έγκλειση (incasement), έμφραξη (blockage, infarction), σύσφιξις, σύσφιξη (clamping, constriction, crimp, interference), σύγκλεισις, συρρίκνωση (shrinkage), προσρόφηση (adsorption), ζάρωμα (crease, shrinkage), απόφραξις (blocking, obstruction), απορρόφησις αερίου από ένα αέριο ή μέταλλο σε μεγάλη ποσότητα όπως του υδρογόνου από λευκόχρυσο, τύπος οδοντικής σύγκλησης (bite pattern, bite type, occlusal form), ορθοδοντικό μηχάνημα (orthodontic appliance), θέση σύγκλεισης γνάθων (occlusal position), θέση δήξης (occlusal position). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קליטה (absorption, comprehension, conception, intake, integration, reception, understanding), חסימה (jamming, obstruction, obturation), סגירה (closing, closure, shutting), סגר (bolt, closing, closure, lock, tongue of a lock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elzárás (obturating, obturation, quarantine, seclusion, strangulation), eltömés (bung, obturating, obturation, strangulation), eldugítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | occlusione (astringency, blockage, constipation, engorgement, obstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 噛合わせ (engaging or meshing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はみあわせ (engaging or meshing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 폐색. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dooney (barricade, block, button up, cadence, clench, closure, filling, imprisonment, lacing up, occlude, secure, shut, shut down, stop up, swing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | occlusionay oclusão (closure, shutdown). (various references) ocluziune (stopping), ocluzie, blocare (drag, jam, lock, obstruction, pinching), astupare (obstruction, plugging, stopping). (various references) закупорка (blockage, congestion, obstruction, obturation, stoppage). (various references) okluzija, zatvaranje (closedown, closure, immurement, impoundment, incarceration, locking, shutdown), začepljenje (obstruction, obturation, stoppage), apsorbovanje. (various references) oclusión (obstruction). (various references) ocklusion. (various references) การสบกันของฟันบนและล่าง, การอุด. (various references) tıkanma (being choked up, being stopped, stoppage), tıkama (choking up, obstruction, obturation, plugging, sealing, springing, stoppage, stopping), kapanma (cicatrization, closing, closure, shutdown), gazların emilmesi, üst üste oturma. (various references) вбирання, оклюзія, непрохідність (impenetrability, impracticability, obstruction), закупорка (obstruction), закриття (close, closing, closure, shutdown, shutoff), загородження (barrage, barricade, obstruction), абсорбція (absorbing), прикус зубів, поглинення (absorption, capture, merger), перепиняння. (various references) tình trạng bị đút nút, sự bít, sự đút nút (obturation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "occlusion": occlusions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "occlusion": malocclusion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "occlusion": malocclusions. (additional references) | |
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"Occlusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acclusion, coclusion, Occlestone, occlussion, occlution, occulsion, occulusion, oculsion, Ossulston. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "occlusion" (pronounced ukluw"zhun) |
| 6 | -k l uw" zh u n | conclusion, exclusion, inclusion, preclusion, seclusion. |
| 5 | -l uw" zh u n | allusion, collusion, delusion, disillusion, illusion. |
| 4 | -uw" zh u n | confusion, contusion, diffusion, extrusion, fusion, infusion, intrusion, profusion, transfusion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, conversion, corrosion, decision, derision, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, excursion, explosion, immersion, implosion, incision, incursion, indecision, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, persuasion, perversion, precision, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, version, vision. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-n-o-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: colonics, councils. | |
-2 letters: colonic, colonus, council, uncoils. | |
-3 letters: clonic, clonus, colics, colins, coloni, colons, conics, consol, consul, coulis, cousin, insoul, nicols, solion, uncoil, uncool. | |
-4 letters: cions, cisco, clons, cocos, coils, coins, colic, colin, colon, conic, conus, cools, coons, icons, incus, linos, lions, locos, locus, loins, loons, louis, nicol, noils, nolos, oculi, olios, scion, snool. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-n-o-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: conclusion, councilors, occlusions. | |
+2 letters: conclusions, consciously, councillors. | |
+3 letters: cocounseling, malocclusion, occultations. | |
+4 letters: cavernicolous, cocounselling, conclusionary, conspicuously, flocculations, malocclusions, noncellulosic, nonconclusion, subcollection, unconsciously. | |
+5 letters: cocultivations, constructional, contumaciously, councillorship, electrocutions, nonconclusions, preconsciously, subcollections, subconsciously, unconscionable, unconscionably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 63 63 6C 75 73 69 6F 6E |
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