[
UK
/əklˈuːsɪv/
]
NOUN
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a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
his stop consonants are too aspirated
ADJECTIVE
- tending to occlude
How To Use occlusive In A Sentence
- However, occlusive dressings should be avoided on moist lesions.
- For adults between 30 and 80 years old with occlusive vascular disease (proven heart blockages or symptoms), the benefits of statins are proven. Mark Hyman, MD: Why Health Care Reform Will Fail: Part I -- The Business of Disease: We Pay For What Doesn't Work
- 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
- Despite its accuracy in determining occlusive disease, patient motion may decrease clarity and resolution in 10% to 15% of studies.
- 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
- The four-year-old girl in this room is an asthmatic; the teenage boy in that bed is a sickler in VOC vaso-occlusive crisis. Between Expectations
- The lesions were subsequently covered with an occlusive nonsterile Tegaderm dressing.
- It acts as an occlusive agent which prevents water from naturally leaving your body through your skin. Does mineral oil benefit my skin? « Digital immigrant
- 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
- Objective To investigate the clinical characters and diagnosis and treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease(HVOD).