disclusion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin disclusio, from discludere, disclusum (“to separate”). See disclose.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]disclusion (countable and uncountable, plural disclusions)
- (obsolete) A shutting off; exclusion.[1]
- 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
- impressed in the Brain, the composition of them, and disclusion and various disposal of them, is plainly an arbitrarious act,
- (dentistry) A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened.
- (dentistry) Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “disclusion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.