OBTURATOR

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

That which closes or stops an opening.

2.
n.

An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.

3.
a.

Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve. Obturator foramen (Anat.), an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.