- (n.) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
- (n.) A camera shutter.
- (a.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
- (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
- (n.) That which closes or stops an opening.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "obturator" 27 May 2011. Web. 24 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/obturator/definitions/2038142> |