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Definition of Embolic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to an embolism or embolus.

Definition of Embolic

1. a. Embolismic.

Definition of Embolic

1. Adjective. (pathology) Of or relating to an embolus or an embolism. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to emboly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embolic

1. embolism [adj] - See also: embolism

Medical Definition of Embolic

1. 1. Embolismic. 2. Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess. 3. Pushing or growing in; said of a kind of invagination. See Invagination. Origin: Gr. To throw in. See Embolism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embolic

Literary usage of Embolic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the practice of medicine for the use of students and by Roberts Bartholow (1890)
"By embolic pneumonia is meant an infarction of the lung, due to embolic blocking of a ... The emboli which give rise to embolic pneumonia are of two kinds, ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"embolic Infarction of Muscles.—That the muscles, like other organs, are liable to be the seat of embolic infarctions is a subject which is discussed by M. ..."

3. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1907)
"embolic INFARCTIONS. Anemic and hemorrhagic infarctions of the kidney are of pathologic rather than of clinical significance. Cicatrices may result from ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Chorio-epithelioma Outside the Uterus and Primary embolic Choric- epithelioma of the Vagina.—HICKS (Jour. Obst. and Gynec. Brit. ..."

5. Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: A Handbook for Students and by Theodor Billroth (1878)
"Embolism; Red Infarctus, embolic Metastatic Abcesses. Treatment. 5. ... embolic metastatic abscesses. —In addition to the forms of inflammation already ..."

6. An Introduction to Pathology and Morbid Anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1884)
"embolic .Kidney.—From a case of aneurism of the abdominal aorta. Numerous small yellowish-white patches were seen scattered through the cortices of the ..."

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