occluded

adj 1: closed off; "an occluded artery"

2: (of a substance) taken into and retained in another

substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of

occluded hydrogen in palladium" [syn: {sorbed}]

occlude

(Or "shadow") To make a variable inaccessible by

declaring another with the same name within the {scope} of the

first.

(1995-12-14)