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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.

Intercalated time.

The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

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.

Intercalated time.

The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

Blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot or foreign matter that has been transported from a distant site by the blood stream.

Embolus blocking a blood vessel.

The insertion of days, months, or years in an account of time to produce regularity: (med.) the presence of obstructing clots in the blood-vessels.

EMBOLISMAL, EMBOLISMIC.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years in an account of time, to produce regularity; intercalated time; the blocking up, which may be either total or partial, of a blood-vessel by a clot of coagulated blood-llbrine, occasioning in some eases death, in others gangrene or paralysis. See Emblemata.

Obstruction of a vessel by an embolus.

The obstruction of an artery or capillary by any undissolved material transported to it by the blood current. This material may consist of a detached portion of a thrombus, of fat cells, air bubbles, tumor cells, or cells from various viscera, such as the liver, the bone-marrow, or the placenta.

n. [Greek] Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; intercalated time.

Intercalation, insertion of days or years to produce regularity and equation of time; the time inserted, intercalatory time.