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OCCLUDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does occluded mean?
• OCCLUDED (adjective)
The adjective OCCLUDED has 2 senses:
1. closed off
2. (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
Familiarity information: OCCLUDED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Closed off
Context example:
an occluded artery
Similar:
obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
Synonyms:
occluded; sorbed
Context example:
large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium
Similar:
combined (made or joined or united into one)
Context examples
Surgery performed to bypass partially or completely occluded coronary arteries, thereby increasing the blood supply of the heart.
(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, 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)
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