Usually means: Device or structure that closes openings.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word obturator:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. obturator: Merriam-Webster
  2. obturator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obturator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obturator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obturator: Vocabulary.com
  6. obturator: Wordnik
  7. obturator: Wiktionary
  8. obturator: Dictionary.com
  9. Obturator (disambiguation), Obturator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Obturator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. obturator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. obturator: Rhymezone
  13. Obturator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. obturator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. obturator: FreeDictionary.org
  16. obturator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. obturator: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obturator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. obturator: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. obturator: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See obturators as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obturator)

noun:  (surgery) An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
noun:  (anatomy) The membrane vessels, etc. that close the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the hip bone.
noun:  (engineering) A valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.).
noun:  (ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
noun:  (photography) A camera shutter.

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