occlusion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈkluː.ʒən/
- Rhymes: -uːʒən
Noun
occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)
- The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
- (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
- (meteorology) An occluded front.
- (phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
- (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
- (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
Derived terms
- abocclusion
- antocclusion
- benocclusion
- disocclusion
- distocclusion
- malocclusion
- mesiocclusion
- neutrocclusion
- nonocclusion
- occlusional
- occlusion body
- orthocclusion
- postocclusion
- preocclusion
- reocclusion
- retrocclusion
- torsocclusion
- vasoocclusion
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnem (“occluding", "obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up”, “I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.kly.zjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
occlusion f (plural occlusions)
- occlusion
Derived terms
- rectocclusion
Related terms
- occlure
Further reading
- “occlusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.