1. Noun
That which closes or stops an opening.
2. Noun
An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
3. Adjective
Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
4. Noun
a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
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