Thesaurus: obturator

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