Embolus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels through the bloodstream and lodges so as to obstruct or occlude a blood vessel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the blood stream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
  • n. The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
  • n. A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Something inserted into or acting within something else; that which thrusts or drives, as a piston or wedge.
  • n. The clot of fibrin obstructing a blood-vessel, causing embolism: as, capillary emboli.
  • n. The nucleus emboliformis of the cerebellum.
  • n. Also embolon, embolum.
  • n. The terminal portion of the digital joint of the palpus of a male spider, containing an orifice near the tip through which the seminal fluid is collected and later ejected.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    clot    coagulum   
    Cross Reference
    thrombus   
    Variant
    emboli   
    Form
    embolic    embolism   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    readme    noncardiogenic    heparin-induced    histopathology    atelectasis   
     
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