The phrase "obscures understanding" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something is causing confusion or making something difficult to understand. Example: The use of complicated scientific jargon in the presentation obscures understanding for the general audience.
Although Chinese culture obscures understanding of patients' true sexual concerns, professionals are expected to clarify the problems in this respect and find effective solutions.
Furthermore, despite identifying a genetic overlap in ALS and other neurodegenerative disease mechanisms, the sporadic occurrence of cognitive impairment in ALS patients obscures understanding a clear etiology of the disease.
Highly offensive to the section of humanity that is reminded of the "long history of mistreatment of Native American people in the United States, and that the name perpetuates stereotypes that obscures understanding of the reality of Native Americans today and instead helps to keep alive racially discriminatory attitudes".
Any edition of this diffuse masterpiece must aim at clarifying the ultimately insoluble problems that obscure understanding of the complex relationship between its three surviving early printings.
The Thunderbirds applauded, and it seemed for a minute that some obscure understanding was about to be cleared up, and then the bus started up and moved slowly away through the trees.
That the designated guru replied, year after year, to embarrassing and shabby effusions like these may open a new pathway into our generally obscure understanding of the character of Otto Frank.
As Sivin (1978, 1995b) pointed out in a series of article begun over thirty years ago, simplistic stereotypes of Daoism as mystical or naturalistic obscure understanding of the relations between Daoism and science.
More abstractly it can describe how facts are brought to the surface, an insight into obscure understanding or an almost indistinguishable bit of light between two things.
G. I. L. Grafton: Understanding obscure Arabic's no good when lacking the elements of simple conversation (anag. incl. ng, less s, c).
But it seems equally possible that, out of ignorance, we have whipped up a misguided, dangerous frenzy — dangerous in that it obscures accurate understanding of a rogue state that, after all, has nuclear capabilities — over Kim's absence.
The multidimensional nature of FM obscures our understanding of the burden of FM in individual patients and complicates the development of appropriate comprehensive management strategies.
