Definition of "obturation" noun countable and uncountable , plural obturations
The act of stopping up , or closing , an opening . quotations examples
Quotations Deaf by an outward obturation
1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London
None of Mr . Knott 's gestures could be called characteristic , unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities , the thumbs in the mouth , the forefingers in the ears , the little fingers in the nostrils , the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers , free in a crisis to promote intellection , laid along the temples .
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959