Vocabulary : Obturating to Obtusion

Obturating : of Obturate
Obturation : The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
Obturator : Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check. ;; A camera shutter. ;; That which closes or stops an opening. ;; An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate. ;; Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
Obtusangular : See Obstuseangular.
Obtuse : Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. ;; Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. ;; Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

Obtuse-angled : Alt. of obtuse-angular
obtuse-angular : Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
Obtusely : In an obtuse manner.
Obtuseness : State or quality of being obtuse.
Obtusion : The act or process of making obtuse or blunt. ;; The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses.

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