Look up: embolus

1. embolus
   Type: Term Pronunciation: em′bō-lŭs, -lī Definitions: 1. A plug, composed of a detached thrombus or vegetation, mass of bacteria, or other foreign body, occluding a vessel. Synonyms: emboliform nucleus
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2. embolus
   [n] - an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
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3. Embolus
   An embolus or embolism is a part of a blood clot that breaks away and flows in the blood to somewhere else. A pulmonary embolism is such a clot that flows to and stops in a pulmonary artery near the lungs. See Blood clot.
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4. Embolus
   a particle usually of thrombus moving in the blood stream blocking an artery
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5. Embolus
   Material (such as a blood clot or an air bubble) which is carried by the blood stream.
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6. Embolus
   Embolus: Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli are a detached blood clot, a clump of bacteria, and foreign material such as air. A pulmonary embolus is a blood clot that has been carried through the blood into the pulmonary artery ...
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7. embolus
   bit of foreign matter which enters the blood stream at one point and is carried until it is lodged or impacted in an artery and obstructs it.It may be a blood clot,an air bubble,fat or other tissue,or clumps of bacteria Category: Medicine
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8. embolus
   A clot formed by platelets or leucocytes that blocks a blood vessel.
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9. Embolus
   Em'bo·lus noun ; plural Emboli . [ Latin , from Greek ... pointed so as to be put or thrust in, from ... to throw, thrust, or put in. See Emblem .] 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe...
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10. embolus
    A clot formed by platelets or leucocytes that blocks a blood vessel. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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11. embolus
    noun an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
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12. embolus
    (em´bo-lәs) pl. em´boli a clot or other plug, usually part or all of a thrombus, brought by the blood from another vessel and forced into a smaller one, thus obstructing circulation; see also embolism. saddle embolus one situated at the bifurcation of a large artery, sometimes blocki...
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13. Embolus
    • (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...
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14. embolus
    (from the article `thrombosis`) ...may be blockage of the blood vessel at the point of clot formation or blockage of a vessel at some other point by a clot that has broken free from ... [4 related articles]
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15. Embolus
    The structure, in the male palp, containing the terminal part of the ejaculatory duct and its opening. It may be very small, or long, whip-like or coiled and is sometimes divided into several structures.
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16. Embolus
    An embolus (plural emboli; from the Greek ἔμβολος "clot, lit. ram") is any detached, traveling intravascular mass (solid, liquid, or gaseous) carried by circulation, which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds (create an arterial occlusion) at a site distant from its point of origi...
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17. embolus
    embolus (em'bulus) , foreign matter circulating in and obstructing a blood vessel. It may be a portion of a clot that has separated from the wall of a vessel (see thrombosis), a bubble of gas or air (known as an air embolus), a globule of fat, a clump of bacterial matter, or a clump of tumor cel...
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