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
However, these sensors often face challenges like reduced detection capabilities in adverse weather, on unstructured roads, or due to occlusion.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Typically, wearing a patch - often referred to as patching or occlusion therapy - requires covering the unaffected eye for a couple of hours a day.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
What a formidable object of occlusion, that door by which no one had entered for twenty years!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
