Usually means: Sealing a cavity or passage.
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  1. obturation: Merriam-Webster
  2. obturation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obturation: Collins English Dictionary
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  9. obturation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  11. obturation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. obturation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (obturation)

noun:  The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
noun:  (firearms) The process of a bullet expanding under pressure to fit the bore of the firearm, or a cartridge case expanding under pressure to seal the chamber.

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