Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organic structure, such as the soft palate, that closes an opening in the body.
- noun A prosthetic device serving to close an opening in the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which closes or stops up an entrance, cavity, or the like.
- noun In photography, the instantaneous shutter of a camera.
- noun Anything used to close the orifice of a hollow instrument, such as a speculum or catheter, during its introduction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen.
- adjective (Anat.) an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the
obturator membrane ; the thyroid foramen. - noun That which closes or stops an opening.
- noun (Surg.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
- noun (Ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
- noun (Photog.) A camera shutter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine An
object used toobstruct ahole .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
Etymologies
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Examples
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An appendix sitting behind the obturator muscle causes a pain sensation in the pelvis, sometimes only detected with a rectal exam.
Archive 2003-05-01 2003
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An appendix sitting behind the obturator muscle causes a pain sensation in the pelvis, sometimes only detected with a rectal exam.
Medpundit 2003
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The nerves (one or both) may become bruised at the brim of the obturator foramen by being caught between the pelvis and the body of the fetus in some cases of protracted labor.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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When paralysis of the obturator nerve occurs as a post-partum complication, and other conditions are favorable, the subject should be raised to its feet without unnecessary delay.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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In one instance damage particularly affecting the lumbo-sacral cord occurred, but this was complicated by signs of irritation of the anterior crural and obturator nerves, as the result of retro-peritoneal hæmorrhage and injury to the psoas muscle.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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In some cases of dystocia the obturator nerve, (or nerves, if the involvement is bilateral), becomes injured by being caught between the maternal pelvis and some dense part of the fetus.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Moller, [37] quoting Nocard, describes a case where fracture occurred through the region of the foramen ovale and paralysis of the obturator nerve followed.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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-- The obturator nerve, situated at first under the peritoneum, accompanies the obturator artery through the obturator foramen and gaining the muscles on the internal face of the thigh, terminates in the obturator externus, adductors, pectineus and gracilis, also giving twigs to the obturator internus (Strangeways).
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Paralysis of the obturator nerve or nerves is met with rather frequently, notwithstanding, in mares, following dystocia.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Branches supply the following muscles -- obturator, semimembranosus (adductor magnus), biceps femoris (triceps abductor femoris), semitendinosus (biceps rotator tibialis), lateral extensor
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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