OCCLUDE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Occlude

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Occlude v. t.

To shut up; to close.

(Chem.) To take in and retain; to absorb; said especially with respect to gases; as, iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen.

See images of 'Occlude'

Etymology of 'Occlude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Occlude" Quotes from Famous Books

... chronic form of indigestion may also follow an acute attack like that previously described. This is also a symptom of tuberculosis when the lymphatic glands lying between the lungs are so enlarged as to press upon and partly occlude the esophagus. It may develop in calves as a result of the formation of hair ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... grayish-white metal of high luster, and is very malleable and ductile. It melts in the oxyhydrogen blowpipe and in the electric furnace; it is harder than gold and is a good conductor of electricity. In finely divided form it has the ability to absorb or occlude gases, especially oxygen and hydrogen. These gases, when occluded, are in a very active condition resembling the nascent state, and can combine with each other at ordinary temperatures. A jet of hydrogen or coal gas directed upon spongy platinum is ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

... the tissues, the extravasated blood may occlude the vein by pressure, and the symptoms of arterial aneurysm replace those of the arterio-venous form, the systolic bruit persisting, while the venous ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... heal over temporarily, but usually open up again during the following winter. The presence of old splits is often indicated by a ridge of callous, the result of the cambium's effort to occlude the wound. Frost splits not only affect the value of lumber, but also afford an entrance into the living tree for disease ...

— The Mechanical Properties of Wood • Samuel J. Record