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Definition of Embolism

1. Noun. An insertion into a calendar.

2. Noun. Occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle).

Definition of Embolism

1. n. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

Definition of Embolism

1. Noun. (pathology) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embolism

1. the obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus [n -S] : EMBOLIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Embolism

1. The sudden blocking of an artery by a clot or foreign material which has been brought to its site of lodgment by the blood current. Origin: L. Embolismus, from Gr. Ballein = to throw This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embolism

emboldens embolectomies embolectomy emboli embolic abscess embolic gangrene embolic infarct embolic pneumonia embolies emboliform

emboliform nucleus embolisation embolism (current term) embolism and thrombosis embolismal embolismic embolisms embolite embolization embolizations

embololalia embolomycotic embolomycotic aneurysm embolon embolophasia embolophrasia embolotherapy

Literary usage of Embolism

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"Transitory embolism of the Central Artery of the Retina. ... The suddenness of the blindness certainly suggests embolism ; but it seems difficult under this ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"In the puerperal condition cerebral embolism is not infrequent. ... A majority of cases of embolism occur in heart disease. 89 per cent. ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"FREDERIC A. BESLEY : I would like to ask Dr. Richter if there is any danger in suturing large veins from air embolism. DR. RICHTER: A number of years ago I ..."

4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"ALTHOUGH the subject of fat embolism has been before the profession for twenty ... In 1862 Zenker noticed that embolism was produced in the lungs by fat ..."

5. The Treatment of Fractures by Charles Locke Scudder, Frederic Jay Cotton (1901)
"Fat embolism.—Fat embolism, to a greater or less degree, exists in every case ... The danger in fat embolism is that the patient may die from asphyxiation, ..."

6. An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1889)
"embolism.—Portions of the thrombus may be carried away by the ... embolism. embolism is the impaction.of solid substances circulating in the blood in ..."

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