Adjective: occluded u'kloo-did
- Closed off
"an occluded artery"
- (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
"large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium";
- sorbed
- Block passage through
"The debris occluded the pipe, causing a blockage";
- obstruct, obturate, impede, jam, block, close up
See also: combined, obstructed
Type of: entrammel [literary], fetter [literary], hinder, impede, trammel [literary]
Encyclopedia: Occluded
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