Obstruction

Obstruction may refer to:

Places Obstruction Island, in Washington state Obstruction Islands, east of New Guinea

Medicine Obstructive jaundice Obstructive sleep apnea Airway obstruction, a respiratory problem Recurrent airway obstruction Bowel obstruction, a blockage of the intestines Gastric outlet obstruction Distal intestinal obstruction syndrome Congenital lacrimal duct obstruction Bladder outlet obstruction

Politics and law Obstruction of justice, the crime of interfering with law enforcement Obstructionism, the practice of deliberately delaying or preventing a process or change, especially in politics Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006

Science and mathematics Obstruction set in forbidden graph characterizations, in the study of graph minors in graph theory Obstruction theory, a mathematical theory Propagation path obstruction Single Vegetative Obstruction Model

Sports Obstruction (baseball), when a fielder illegally hinders a baserunner Obstructing the field

See also The Five Obstructions, a 2003 film USS Obstructor, an American minelayer ship used in World War II