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occlusive

 [ŏ-kloo´siv]
pertaining to or effecting occlusion.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

oc·clu·sive

(ŏ-klū'siv),
Serving to close; denoting a bandage or dressing that closes a wound and excludes it from the air.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

oc·clu·sive

(ŏ-klū'siv)
Serving to close; denoting a bandage or dressing that closes a wound and excludes it from the air.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

Occlusive

Closing off. One of the newest treatments for stress urinary incontinence in women is an external occlusive single-use cap that covers the urethral opening.
Mentioned in: Urinary Incontinence
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The US FDA's premarket approval for the company's Venovo venous stent is reportedly the first stent indicated to treat iliofemoral venous occlusive disease, which is obstructed or narrowed blood flow specific to the iliac and femoral veins located near the groin.
BD wins the US FDA's premarket approval for Venovo venous stent for iliofemoral venous occlusive disease
Qualitative data like gender, smoking, diabetes, elderly, history of occlusive footwear and trauma and family history were presented in the form of frequency and percentages.
Frequency of associated factors of onychomycosis
Category 4: Haemodynamically significant occlusive lesions ([greater than or equal to] 50% stenosis).
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A review of the CINAHL, Medline, and PubMed databases for 2012-2105 was conducted using the search terms chest tubes, occlusive dressings, occlusive petroleum dressings, and dry sterile dressings.
Evidence to support the use of occlusive dry sterile dressings for chest tubes
Kemen, "Operative results and outcome of twenty-four totally laparoscopic vascular procedures for aortoiliac occlusive disease," Journal of Vascular Surgery, vol.
Revascularization of Chronic Total Occlusion of the Infrarenal Aorta in a Patient with Triple Vessel Disease: Report of a Case Treated by Endovascular Approach
[10] Studies found few patients with segmental cerebral arteritis on angiography [11] and others with normal carotid angiography, but occlusive granulomatous angiitis of small vessels.
Unilateral multifocal chorioretinopathy a clue to herpes zoster ophthalmicus
HR-MRI findings show that MMD is associated with inward remodeling, smaller outer diameters, concentric occlusive lesions, and homogeneous signal intensity in the affected MCA segments compared with ICAD.
High-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Moyamoya Disease
The Doppler ultrasound indicated a complete obstruction and revealed the diagnosis of occlusive peripheral arterial disease stage 4 because of the patient history of smoking, dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, dehydration.
An atypical case of peripheral arterial thrombosis complicated with thromboembolism
Occlusive moisturizers create a thin layer on the surface of the skin to hold moisture in and prevent it from escaping and causing dry skin.
Mango Madness Skin Care Introduces Aloe Vera Based Day Moisturizer
Section 4 begins with an overview of neurointensive care, then provides chapters on systemic complications, post-operative care, traumatic brain injury, and management of different types of hemorrhage, as well as spinal cord injury, occlusive cerebrovascular disease, neuromuscular disorders, seizures, and infections.
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