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What (who) is OCCLUDED - definition
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Occlusal; Occlusion (disambiguation); Occluded; Occlude
occlude
[?'klu:d]
¦ verb
1. stop, close up, or obstruct.
2. Chemistry (of a solid) absorb and retain (a gas or impurity).
3. (of a tooth) come into contact with another in the opposite jaw.
Origin
C16: from L. occludere 'shut up'.
occlude
<programming> (Or "shadow") To make a variable inaccessible by
declaring another with the same name within the scope of the
first.
(1995-12-14)
Examples of use of OCCLUDED
1. In 1'53, DeBakey performed the first Dacron graft to replace part of an occluded artery.
2. "If, during the medical examination, they would have seen a completely occluded coronary artery, that would have been the end of it," he said.
3. It is the simple, depressing lack of seriousness demonstrated by the White House in coming up with such a candidate, the sheer cramped and occluded smallness of the thinking that now seems to characterise the Bush Administrations approach to governing.
4. Tim Jarvis, who retraced the journey In doing so, Jarvis hoped to finally secure the international recognition he believes Mawson deserves as one of Britain‘s great unsung heroes — and to banish the dark myths that had occluded his remarkable achievement.
5. This riot of understatement has been self–evident to most sentient beings for a long time; that it is now sinking into the occluded consciousness of Potomac power players is a turning point of genuine significance.