occlusion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“to shut up or close up; to restrain”), from ob + claudō (“to shut or close”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkluː.ʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)

1. The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
2. (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
4. (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
5. (meteorology) An occluded front.
6. (phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
7. (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
8. (computer graphics) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

Derived terms

• abocclusion
• antocclusion
• benocclusion
• disocclusion
• distocclusion
• distoclusion
• infraocclusion
• interocclusion
• malocclusion
• mesiocclusion
• neutrocclusion
• neutroclusion
• nonocclusion
• occlusional
• occlusion body
• occlusive
• orthocclusion
• periocclusion
• postocclusion
• preocclusion
• reocclusion
• retrocclusion
• subocclusion
• supraocclusion
• torsocclusion
• vasoocclusion
• venoocclusion

Translations

Translations

• French: occlusion (fr) f
• Spanish: oclusión (es) f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occlūsiōnem (“occluding", "obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“to shut up or close up”, “to restrain”), from ob + claudō (“to shut or close”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.kly.zjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

occlusion f (plural occlusions)

1. occlusion

Derived terms

• rectocclusion

Related terms

• occlure

Further reading

• “occlusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012