Occlusion: alternatives and connections

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

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That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

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One who obstructs or hinders.

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The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the inser…

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Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek…

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A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

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Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

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The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign…

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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; th…

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