Usually means: Blockage or obstruction of passage.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word occlusion:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. occlusion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. occlusion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occlusion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occlusion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occlusion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occlusion, occlusion: Wordnik
  7. occlusion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. occlusion: Wiktionary
  9. occlusion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. occlusion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. occlusion: Dictionary.com
  12. Occlusion (dentistry), Occlusion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Occlusion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. occlusion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. occlusion: Rhymezone
  16. Occlusion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. occlusion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. occlusion: Free Dictionary
  19. occlusion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. occlusion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. occlusion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Occlusion: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Occlusion: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. occlusion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occlusion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Occlusion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. Occlusion: Visionary
  9. occlusion: Medical dictionary
  10. Occlusion: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occlusion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  3. Occlusion: Beauty & Health Glossary
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. OCCLUSION: Power Engineering

(Note: See occlusions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (occlusion)

noun:  The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
noun:  (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
noun:  (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
noun:  (meteorology) An occluded front.
noun:  (phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
noun:  (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
noun:  (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

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