Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occluding or tending to occlude.
- noun An oral or nasal stop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Closing; serving to close: as, an occlusive dressing for a wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That tends to
occlude . - noun phonetics A
plosive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to occlude
- noun a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
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Examples
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A comedone is a blackhead or whitehead plugging up a pore, and you certainly don’t want anything that can contribute to those namely, occlusive ingredients such as mineral oil, lanolin, or petrolatum.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A comedone is a blackhead or whitehead plugging up a pore, and you certainly don’t want anything that can contribute to those namely, occlusive ingredients such as mineral oil, lanolin, or petrolatum.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A comedone is a blackhead or whitehead plugging up a pore, and you certainly don’t want anything that can contribute to those namely, occlusive ingredients such as mineral oil, lanolin, or petrolatum.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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The most commonly used active agent in many skin care products, after water, is the occlusive substance petrolatum or petrolatum by-products!
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: What's In That Cream You're Putting On Your Face? M.D. Robert Tornambe 2011
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The most commonly used active agent in many skin care products, after water, is the occlusive substance petrolatum or petrolatum by-products!
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: What's In That Cream You're Putting On Your Face? M.D. Robert Tornambe 2011
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It acts as an occlusive agent which prevents water from naturally leaving your body through your skin.
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The Lib Dems would be very proud of themselves and of their leader, but for two huge and occlusive clouds hanging on the horizon.
Lib Dems: They love the power, but they're not sure about the responsibility 2010
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As an example in modern practice, it's only just becoming possible with imaging to tell the difference between an occlusive stroke, which you treat with a clot-dissolving agent, and a haeorrhagic stroke, which a clot-dissolving agent is likely to make worse.
Early medieval surgical knowledge Carla 2010
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Nor do plastic sheets and other occlusive dressings.
Silicone Treatment for Scars aka TBTAM 2008
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For adults between 30 and 80 years old with occlusive vascular disease (proven heart blockages or symptoms), the benefits of statins are proven.
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