Occlusion may refer to:
Health and fitness
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Occlusion (dentistry)
Occlusion, in a dental context, means simply the contact between teeth. More technically, it is the relationship between the maxillary (upper) and mandibular (lower) teeth when they approach each other, as occurs during chewing or at rest.
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, the manner in which the upper and lower teeth come together when the mouth is closed
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Occlusion miliaria, a skin condition
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Occlusive dressing, an air- and water-tight trauma dressing used in first aid
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Vascular occlusion Vascular occlusion is a blockage of a blood vessel, usually with a clot. It differs from thrombosis in that it can be used to describe any form of blockage, not just one formed by a clot. When it occurs in a major vein, it can, in some cases, cau ...
, blockage of a blood vessel
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Vascular occlusion training
Blood flow restriction training / Occlusion Training (also abbreviated BFR training) or Occlusion Training or KAATSU is an exercise and rehabilitation modality whereby resistance exercise, aerobic exercise or physical therapy movements are perform ...
, or blood flow restriction training, a technique done by some bodybuilders
Other uses
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Ambient occlusion
In 3D computer graphics, modeling, and animation, ambient occlusion is a shading and rendering technique used to calculate how exposed each point in a scene is to ambient lighting. For example, the interior of a tube is typically more occluded ...
, a shading method used in 3D computer graphics
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Occluded front
In meteorology, an occluded front is a type of weather front formed during cyclogenesis. The classical and usual view of an occluded front is that it initiates when a cold front overtakes a warm front near a cyclone, such that the warm air is separ ...
, part of cyclone formation
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Occlusion culling
In 3D computer graphics, hidden-surface determination (also known as shown-surface determination, hidden-surface removal (HSR), occlusion culling (OC) or visible-surface determination (VSD)) is the process of identifying what surfaces and parts o ...
, or hidden surface determination, a 3D computer graphics process
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Occlusion effect The occlusion effect occurs when an object fills the outer portion of a person's ear canal, causing that person to perceive echo-like "hollow" or "booming" sounds generated from their own voice.
The bone-conducted sound travels to the cochlea thro ...
, an audio phenomenon
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Occlusive
In phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract. The duration of the block is the ''occlusion'' of the consonan ...
, in phonetics
See also
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Occlusion training (disambiguation)
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Occultation
An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them. The term is often used in astronomy, but can also refer to any situation in which an object in the foreground blocks ...
, when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer
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