Dictionary entry

Obturator (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ob″tu‐ra′tor, a.(Anat.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.

Obturator foramen(Anat.), an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.