OCCLUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occlude mean? 

• OCCLUDE (verb)
  The verb OCCLUDE has 1 sense:

1. block passage through

  Familiarity information: OCCLUDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCLUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they occlude    ... he / she / it occludes   
Past simple: occluded   
Past participle: occluded   
-ing form: occluding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Block passage through

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude

Context example:

obstruct the path

Hypernyms (to "occlude" is one way to...):

hinder; impede (be a hindrance or obstacle to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "occlude"):

block off; blockade (obstruct access to)

barricade; barricado (block off with barricades)

barricade (prevent access to by barricading)

asphyxiate; choke; stifle; suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)

tie up (restrain from moving or operating normally)

dam; dam up (obstruct with, or as if with, a dam)

block out; screen (prevent from entering)

earth up; land up (block with earth, as after a landslide)

bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop (render unsuitable for passage)

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

occlusion (the act of blocking)

occlusive (tending to occlude)

 Context examples 

Administration of a substance by the topical route that is then covered by a dressing which occludes the area of drug application.

(Occlusive Dressing Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration by the topical route which is then covered by a dressing which occludes the area.

(Occlusive Dressing Technique, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

"We would be able to tell if the aneurysm is occluding as it should, without using any imaging tools," Yeo said.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)

Histone acetylation and deacetylation alternately exposes and occludes DNA to transcription factors.

(Histone deacetylase, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

Surgery performed to bypass partially or completely occluded coronary arteries, thereby increasing the blood supply of the heart.

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

We cannot see much of it because of interstellar gases and occluding stars.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If the intraluminal thrombus at the site of plaque disruption totally occludes the vessel, blood flow beyond the obstruction will cease, prolonged ischemia will occur and MI (usually Q-wave MI) will likely result.

(Acute Myocardial Infarction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), irinotecan-eluting beads are administered into blood vessels that feed the tumor, occluding tumor blood vessels and inducing ischemic tumor necrosis while simultaneously delivering high-dose chemotherapy locally.

(Irinotecan-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure to open an occluded coronary artery, performed by percutaneous introduction of a catheter into a peripheral (usually femoral) artery which is directed in a retrograde fashion to reach the diseased coronary artery.

(Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, NCI Thesaurus)

During transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the hepatic artery, idarubicin-eluting beads embolize to the tumor vasculature, occlude tumor blood vessels and induce ischemic necrosis of tumor tissue due to mechanical blockage of the tumor vasculature.

(Idarubicin-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)