obturator

• ⇰ That which closes or stops an opening.
• ⇰ An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
• ⇰ Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
• ⇰ A camera shutter.

• ⇰ Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; <as>as, the <ex>obturator</ex> nerve</as>.