dictionary help| obturator | medical dictionary |
1. That which closes or stops an opening.
2. <surgery> An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
Origin: NL, fr. L. Obturare to stop up: cf.F. Obturateur.
<anatomy> Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
<anatomy> Obturator foramen, an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.
(01 Mar 1998)
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