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obturator

NOUN
  1. a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)

How To Use obturator In A Sentence

  • This obturator can satisfy requirement of rocket engine on the interior ballistic and exterior ballistic.
  • The femoral, lateral cutaneous, and obturator nerves exit from the lumbar plexus.
  • The obturator artery is very variable in origin and no embryological explanation has been found.
  • The surgeon uses a special hip arthroscopy cannula with cannulated obturators to establish the portals.
  • The nerve supply of the knee comes from the tibial, common peroneal, femoral, and obturator sources.
  • The acetabular branch arises opposite the acetabular notch and enters the hip-joint beneath the transverse ligament in company with an articular branch from the obturator artery; it supplies the fat in the bottom of the acetabulum, and is continued along the round ligament to the head of the femur. VI. The Arteries. 6. The Arteries of the Lower Extremity
  • The lateral femoral circumflex may give rise to an obturator.
  • The remainder of the ischium, joins with the pubis to form the obturator foramen.
  • 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
  • No tumor was detected in the right and left obturator lymph nodes.
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