0 the action of removing all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen:
There was obliteration of the infundibular segment, without any remnant of the pulmonary valve and pulmonary trunk.
For some, the war brought about a human and material obliteration without precedent; for others the destruction was almost non-existent.
By occluding the large fistula without obliteration of the cavity, the right ventricular dependent coronary circulation remained intact.
This news report, then, presented literally the structural and spacial obliteration of the public sphere.
These fragments will be seen to cause the complete obliteration of the early interior flow phenomena in the schlieren photographs.
She unconsciously seeks obliteration, preferring to be transformed into someone beautiful and popular.
Such an alternative vision was made unthinkable through the obliteration of certain evocative places.
Repair was effected by obliteration of the major orifice using an over and over running suture, leaving the smaller orifice to function alone.
