Obturator

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Obturator [1]

(1): ( n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.

(2): ( n.) That which closes or stops an opening.

(3): ( n.) A camera shutter.

(4): ( n.) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.

(5): ( a.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.

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