EMBOLISM
\ˈɛmbə͡ʊlˌɪzəm], \ˈɛmbəʊlˌɪzəm], \ˈɛ_m_b_əʊ_l_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of EMBOLISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Intercalated time.
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The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
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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.
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Intercalated time.
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The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
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.
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By William R. Warner
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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.
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EMBOLISMAL, EMBOLISMIC.
By Daniel Lyons
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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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.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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