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Definition of Obturators
1. obturator [n] - See also: obturator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obturators
Literary usage of Obturators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"obturators. BREAKS in the continuity of the palate surface of the mouth, congenital
or ... obturators correcting breaks of the soft portion of the palate, ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Dentistry: Including Anatomy, Physiology by Chapin Aaron Harris (1892)
"obturators AND ARTIFICIAL PALATES. We have classified palatine defects as ...
obturators were formerly made of metallic plate, gold or silver being most ..."
3. A Treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts by James Edmund Garretson (1869)
"In the treatment of palatine defects, obturators may be employed with the greatest
... As obturators are to fulfill various indications, so, of coarse, ..."
4. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1870)
"The former apparatus may be sty obturators, the latter false palate*. In not a
few of these ca other portions of the upper jaw become implicated; ..."
5. A Treatise on Oral Deformities as a Branch of Mechanical Surgery by Norman William Kingsley (1880)
"Most of the earlier efforts in this direction were merely obturators—plugs to
close the posterior nares; and the results were far from satisfactory. ..."
6. Mechanical Dentistry: A Practical Treatise on the Construction of the by Charles Hunter (1882)
"Construction of obturators.—Those openings in the hard or soft palate, sometimes
almost perfectly circular, at other times very irregular in form, ..."
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