There are many things that can block communication between the patient and doctor.

The material that prevented sensors from penetrating the ship also efficiently blocked communication.

This is very destructive to the relationship because it blocks communication.

"My theory about guilt is that it blocks communication between the mind and the stomach," Ms. Chapman said.

It has been suggested that language might have evolved partly to block communication, to set one's own tribe aside from contamination from the others.

Although there were not any casualties reported, landslides blocked communication between Anini and other villages in the district.

Contraceptive gossypol blocks cell-to-cell communication in human and rat cells.

In the minds of the Israeli visitors, she felt certain, "it would typecast me" and block effective communication with them at the conference.

As some organizations block communication on the port used by Yahoo!

For example, the radio problems that effectively blocked communication between firefighters and police on 9/11 bedevil public safety agencies nationwide.