Occlusion may refer to:

Health and fitness

  • Occlusion (dentistry), the manner in which the upper and lower teeth come together when the mouth is closed
  • Occlusion miliaria, a skin condition
  • Occlusive dressing, an air- and water-tight trauma dressing used in first aid
  • Vascular occlusion, blockage of a blood vessel
  • Vascular occlusion training, or blood flow restriction training, a technique done by some bodybuilders

Other uses

  • Ambient occlusion, a shading method used in 3D computer graphics
  • Occluded front, part of cyclone formation
  • Occlusion culling, or hidden surface determination, a 3D computer graphics process
  • Occlusion effect, an audio phenomenon
  • Occlusive, in phonetics

See also

  • Occlusion training (disambiguation)
  • Occultation, when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer
  • Occlusive (disambiguation)