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occluders

occluders is the plural of occluder.

Meaning of occluder

Noun

occluder (plural occluders)

  1. An object that partially or completely impedes the amount of light reaching the eye.
  2. An implement designed to temporarily block light to one eye.
  3. A catheter-delivered device that blocks a hole in the wall of a heart, often having an umbrella-type design and folded up until the catheter arrives at the area of the defect in the heart. Once in place the occluder is unfolded on both sides of the defect so that pressure from both sides keeps it in place.

Questions about occluders

What is occluders the plural of?
Occluders is the plural of occluder.

Words near occluders in the dictionary

  1. occluded front
  2. occluded fronts
  3. occludent
  4. occludents
  5. occluder
  6. occluders
  7. occludes
  8. occludin
  9. occluding
  10. occludins
  11. occlupanid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: occluders (page history and authors); occluder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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