occlusion

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In November, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug for use in patients with macular edema following retinal vein occlusion, a condition where leaky blood vessels in the eye cause swelling.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

"But if we can see the ultrasound finding, we can target the exact place where the occlusion occurs."

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

The problem mainly lies in properly aligning the semantic information extracted independently from the 2D and 3D datasets, which is hard due to issues such as imprecise calibration or occlusion.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

When it is of a chemical character, the process is one of cementation, due to the occlusion of gases in the molecules of the metals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various