Embolism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus.
  • n. An embolus.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.
  • n. The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity.
  • n. Intercalated time.
  • n. The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years in an account of time.
  • n. Intercalated time.
  • n. In pathology, the obstruction of a vessel by a clot of fibrin or other substance abnormally present and brought into the current of the circulating medium from some more or less distant locality. Embolism commonly causes paralysis in the brain, with more or less of an apoplectic shock.
  • n. In liturgics, a prayer for deliverance from evil, inserted in almost all liturgies after the Lord's Prayer, as an expansion of or addition to its closing petition, whence the name. Also embolismus.
  • n. Also embolia.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an insertion into a calendar
  • n. occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    interval    time interval   
    Cross Reference
    air embolism    fat embolism    thrombosis   
    Form
    pulmonary embolism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intercalation   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    infarction    angiogram    emboli    thromboembolism    vasoconstriction   
     
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