BLOCKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blocked mean? 

• BLOCKED (adjective)
  The adjective BLOCKED has 2 senses:

1. closed to traffic

2. completely obstructed or closed off

  Familiarity information: BLOCKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOCKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closed to traffic

Context example:

the repaving results in many blocked streets

Similar:

closed (not open or affording passage or access)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Completely obstructed or closed off

Synonyms:

blocked; plugged

Context example:

the drain was plugged

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

 Context examples 

The process of apoptosis may be blocked in cancer cells.

(Apoptosis, NCI Dictionary)

Surgery in which a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the body is used to make a new path for blood around a blocked artery leading to the heart.

(Aortocoronary bypass, NCI Dictionary)

An immunotoxin comprised of an anti-B4 (anti-CD19) murine monoclonal antibody linked to the modified plant-derived toxin blocked ricin.

(Anti-B4 Blocked Ricin Immunotoxin, NCI Thesaurus)

Coronary artery disease. These arteries supply blood to your heart. When they are blocked, you can suffer angina or a heart attack.

(Atherosclerosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A question about whether an individual is or was bothered by having a blocked nose.

(Bothered by Blocked Nose, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of chronic liver disease in which the tubes that carry bile (fluid that helps digest fat) out of the liver become damaged or blocked over time.

(Biliary cirrhosis, NCI Dictionary)

Blocked bile ducts may also result from infection, cancer or internal scar tissue.

(Bile Duct Diseases, NIH)

A form of glaucoma in which the intraocular pressure increases because the angle of the anterior chamber is blocked and the aqueous humor cannot drain from the anterior chamber.

(Angle Closure Glaucoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A procedure to enlarge the opening in a blood vessel that has become narrowed or blocked by plaque (a buildup of fat and cholesterol on the inner wall of the blood vessel).

(Angioplasty, NCI Dictionary)

Taken together, these findings help identify transmission pathways that potentially could be blocked with a countermeasure.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)