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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)

• Disambiguation pages