EMBOLUS
\ɛmbˈɒləs], \ɛmbˈɒləs], \ɛ_m_b_ˈɒ_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of EMBOLUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
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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 a microscopic organism.
By Oddity Software
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Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
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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 a microscopic organism.
By Noah Webster.
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Blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot or foreign matter that has been transported from a distant site by the blood stream.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any undissolved material, forming an obstruction in a blood vessel, which has been transported by the circulation. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
