obturator : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: obturator	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for obturator
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obturator n a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obturator \Ob"tu*ra`tor\, n. 1. (Ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check. 2. (Photog.) A camera shutter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obturator \Ob"tu*ra`tor\, n. [NL., fr. L. obturare to stop up: cf.F. obturateur.] 1. That which closes or stops an opening. 2. (Surg.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obturator \Ob"tura`tor\, a. (Anat.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator* foramen; as, the obturator nerve. {Obturator foramen} (Anat.), an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.