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