obturative

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English

Adjective

obturative (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or causing obturation
    • 2014 March 27, Bożena Szyguła-Jurkiewicz et al., “Depression is the strongest predictor of long-term outcome in patients with chronic nonischemic heart failure”, in Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska = Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, volume 11, →DOI:
      Of the patients who were not qualified for the study, 10 had aortic stenosis, 4 suffered from alcoholism, 6 neoplastic disease, 11 chronic obturative pulmonary disease with pulmonary hypertension, 9 diabetes mellitus, and 10 active myocarditis according to the Dallas classification.