Embolus Definition

ĕmbə-ləs
emboli
noun
Any foreign matter, as a blood clot or air bubble, carried in the bloodstream and capable of causing an embolism.
Webster's New World

(zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.

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Other Word Forms of Embolus

Noun

Singular:
embolus
Plural:
emboli

Origin of Embolus

  • Latin piston of a pump from Greek embolos stopper, plug from emballein to insert emblem

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (embolos, “peg, stopper”).

    From Wiktionary

Embolus Sentence Examples

  • Such injuries are apt to occur in syphilitic endarteritis, or senile arterial decay, whereby an artery may be blocked permanently, as if with an embolus, and the area supplied by it, in so far as it was dependent upon this vessel, deprived of nutrition.

  • The material that should not be there is called an embolus.

  • This treatment reduces the risk of getting a new embolus.

  • A large pulmonary embolus which blocks the main blood vessels to the lungs will be fatal.

  • Shipman recorded the immediate cause of death as cerebral embolus, which had lasted minutes.

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Words Starting With

EEMEMB

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SUSLUS

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