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Definition of Occluded

1. Adjective. Closed off. "An occluded artery"

2. Adjective. (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance. "Large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"

Definition of Occluded

1. Verb. (past of occlude) ¹

2. Adjective. closed or obstructed ¹

3. Adjective. (meteorology) (''of air'') forced upwards by colder, denser air ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Occluded

1. occlude [v] - See also: occlude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occluded

occipitomental projection occipitoparietal occipitopontine tract occipitoposterior position occipitotectal tract occipitotemporal occipitotemporal sulcus occipitothalamic occipitothalamic radiation occipitotransverse position

occiput occiputs occision occisions occlude occluded (current term) occluded front occluded fronts occluded virus occludens junction

occludent occluder occluders occludes occludin occluding occluding centric relation record occluding frame occluding ligature occluding relation

Literary usage of Occluded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Coal and Its Scientific Uses by William Arthur Bone (1919)
"that coal as it occurs in the seam will contain " occluded " gases. Any gas so occluded in freshly-won coal, which as a rule does not exceed 5 c.cs. per ..."

2. Coal and Its Scientific Uses by William Arthur Bone (1918)
"that coal as it occurs in the seam will contain " occluded " gases. Any gas so occluded in freshly-won coal, which as a rule does not exceed 5 c.cs. per ..."

3. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1921)
"occluded RENAL TUBERCULOSIS* WF BRAASCH Renal occlusion may occur so ... In sixty-nine of this number the affected kidney was found to be occluded. ..."

4. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"occluded GASES. Although we can not determine with absolute certainty the origin of ... At first they were thought to be occluded in the rocks; and, indeed, ..."

5. Coal and Coke by Frederick Henry Wagner (1916)
"GROVES and THORP state that gases occluded in the crevices or cavities of the ... The presence of occluded gases in the coal. 7. The presence of moisture. ..."

6. Coal and Coke by Frederick Henry Wagner (1916)
"GROVES and THORP state that gases occluded in the crevices or cavities of the coal ... PARR and BARKER, working on the gases occluded in Illinois coal, ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1897)
"Palladium black, when exposed to hydrogen gas, ab- sorbed over iioo volumes, but of this only 873 volumes were really occluded, the remainder having formed ..."

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