Embolism Definition

ĕmbə-lĭzəm
noun
The intercalation of a day, month, etc. into a calendar, as in leap year.
Webster's New World
The time intercalated.
Webster's New World
The obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus too large to pass through it.
Webster's New World
An embolus.
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Other Word Forms of Embolism

Noun

Singular:
embolism
Plural:
embolisms

Origin of Embolism

  • Middle English embolisme insertion of one or more days in a calendar from Late Latin embolismus from Greek embolismos from emballein to insert emblem

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

  • From Old French embolisme (“intercalation of days in a calendar to correct errors”), from Late Latin embolismus.

    From Wiktionary

Embolism Sentence Examples

  • To the discovery of the parts played in disease by thrombosis and embolism we have referred above.

  • Should the portion of tissue deprived of its circulation be contained in an internal organ, as is so often the case where the obstruction in the artery is due to embolism, it becomes converted into what is known as an " infarction."

  • In more serious disease states, such as severe asthma or moderate pulmonary embolism, respiratory alkalosis may occur.

  • By embolism is meant the more or less sudden stoppage of a vessel by a plug of solid matter carried thither by the current of the blood; be it a little clot from the heart or, what is far more pernicious, an infective fragment from some focus of infection in the body, by which messengers new foci of infection may be scattered about the body.

  • Without immediate and appropriate treatment, an embolism can be fatal.

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Words Starting With

EEMEMB

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Words Starting With E and Ending With M

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With E8 Letter Words Ending With M