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Obturator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In anatomy, the obturators are muscles which rise from the outer and inner side of the pelvis around foramen thyroideum, and are rotators of the thigh.

Obturator [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.

Obturator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which closes or stops an opening.

2. An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.