embolus
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Origin of embolus
1660–70; < Latin: piston < Greek émbolos stopper, equivalent to em- em- 2 + bólos a throw, akin to bállein to throw
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She told the court that if the cause of death was established as air embolus, then it would have come from the person connecting the fluids, "which wasn't me".
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
He also went on to say that Dr Evans did not have any empirical research to back up his claims about the effects of air embolus.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
Fat in the bloodstream after an injury like mine signaled the possibility of a fat embolus, a rare but potentially fatal complication of long-bone fractures.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2015
Alternatively, plaque can break off and travel through the bloodstream as an embolus until it blocks a more distant, smaller artery.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Finally, however, the resistance of the outworks is overcome, an embolus becomes detached, and an infectious abscess is opened into the blood—an event which is announced by an intense chill and the familiar systemic derangement.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Several months into the pandemic, doctors and scientists began to recognize that the coronavirus was causing blood clots, leading to strokes, heart attacks and emboli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
He was immediately placed on a course of treatment but he died on 15 May from the pulmonary emboli and pneumonia.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
The lung problem, pulmonary emboli, had been dogging him for 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
How do they escape the “bends”? The phenomenon where dissolved nitrogen resurfaces as bubbles causing emboli?
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
Erratic chills announce the lodgment of emboli in distant organs.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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