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obstruction
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obstruction
Politics delay of business, esp in a legislature by means of procedural devices

obstruction [əb′strək·shən]
(medicine)
Occlusion or stenosis of hollow viscera, ducts, and vessels.
(navigation)
Anything that hinders or prevents movement, particularly anything that endangers or prevents passage of a vessel or aircraft; usually refers to an isolated danger to navigation, such as a submerged rock or pinnacle in the case of marine navigation, and a tower, tall building, mountain peak, and so forth, in the case of air navigation.


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A case-control study of Mexican women reported an increased risk of chronic bronchitis and chronic airflow obstruction associated with cooking with wood (Perez-Padilla et al.
The prevalence of chronic airflow obstruction (GAO) has been found to vary with factors like age (McGuire et al.
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