[blo-keyd] 
noun, verb, -ad⋅ed, -ad⋅ing.| 1. | the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit. |
| 2. | any obstruction of passage or progress: We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards. |
| 3. | Pathology. interruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse. |
| 4. | to subject to a blockade. |
| block·ade (blŏ-kād') n.
To set up a blockade against. See Synonyms at besiege. [Probably block + -ade (as in barricade).] block·ad'er n. |
blockade block·ade (blŏ-kād')
n.
Intravenous injection of large amounts of colloidal dyes in which the reaction of the reticuloendothelial cells to other influences is temporarily prevented.
Arrest of nerve impulse transmission at autonomic synaptic junctions, autonomic receptor sites, or myoneural junctions through the action of a drug.
