obturator

1. 1.

   a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)

   Broaderprosthesis

Other forms of obturator

plural

obturators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obturator

What does obturator mean?

obturator means "a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)".

How many syllables are in obturator?

obturator has 4 syllables and divides as ob-tu-ra-tor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.