Occlusion

Look up occlusion, occlude, or occlusal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Occlusion may refer to:

Health and fitness

  • Occlusion (dentistry), the manner in which the upper and lower teeth come together when the mouth is closed
  • Occlusion miliaria, a skin condition
  • Occlusive dressing, an air- and water-tight trauma dressing used in first aid
  • Vascular occlusion, blockage of a blood vessel
    • Vascular occlusion training, or blood flow restriction training, a technique done by some bodybuilders

Other uses

  • Ambient occlusion, a shading method used in 3D computer graphics
  • Occluded front, part of cyclone formation
  • Occlusion culling, or hidden surface determination, a 3D computer graphics process
  • Occlusion effect, an audio phenomenon
  • Occlusive, in phonetics

See also

  • Occlusion training (disambiguation)
  • Occultation, when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer
  • Occlusive (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Disambiguation icon
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Occlusion.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.