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What is the noun for embolism?

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embolon
  1. A blood clot or swelling, particularly one that blocks an artery; an embolus.
  2. (historical) A battering ram on a warship.
  3. (historical) A military formation, usually shaped like a wedge.
  4. (archaic, rare) Anything wedge-shaped.
embolism
  1. (pathology) An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.
  2. The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.
  3. An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “But when heated to body temperature in a patient's bloodstream, the toxicologists theorized, it gasified, causing a fatal pulmonary embolism.”
      “However, the patient had desquamative interstitial pneumonitis and superimposed bronchopneumonia, not pulmonary embolism.”
      “Other cardiovascular causes include severe mitral stenosis and pulmonary embolism.”
embolus
  1. (pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
  2. (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The most common type of embolus is a clot of blood, but other things can cause an embolism too.”
      “These potential complications include embolus, pneumonia, infection, joint dislocation, or deep vein thrombosis.”
      “The differential diagnosis of a cavitary lung lesion includes neoplasm, infection, and septic embolus.”
embolization
  1. (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was extensive embolization to the brain and multiple foci of Aspergillus infection in kidneys and adrenal glands.”
      “A left frontotemporal craniotomy was performed on the day following the embolization.”
      “One way to treat women with fibroids is called uterine fibroid embolization.”
embolectomy
  1. (surgery) Surgical removal of an embolism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Finally, acute pulmonary embolectomy may be beneficial in the unstable patient who has not responded to conventional treatments.”
      “Surgical embolectomy is restricted to life threatening proximal thrombosis where all else has failed.”
      “A therapeutic approach to a patient who fails thrombolytic therapy, anticoagulation and placement of a filter includes surgical or catheter embolectomy.”
emboly
  1. (biology) embolic invagination
embolisation
  1. Alternative spelling of embolization
embolisations
  1. plural of embolisation
embolizations
  1. plural of embolization
embolectomies
  1. plural of embolectomy
  2. Examples:
    1. “The latter, recognising that large clots within the pulmonary circulation may be rapidly fatal, attempted the first pulmonary embolectomies.”
embolisms
  1. plural of embolism
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Such pulmonary embolisms, leading to sudden death, can stem from immobilisation, multiple trauma and dehydration.”
      “Insufficient removal of these air embolisms may result in serious water stress which may lead to early leaf wilting as previously shown in chrysanthemum cut flowers.”
      “Pulmonary embolisms occur when these blood clots travel toward the heart and block blood flow in the lungs.”
emboli
  1. plural of embolus
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Clinical data obtained were death from thromboembolic causes, recurrent DVT or pulmonary emboli, and major bleeding episodes.”
      “The left middle cerebral artery was almost completely occluded by fungal emboli.”
      “The emboli lodge in lung capillaries where they obstruct pulmonary blood flow.”
embola
  1. plural of embolon
emboluses
embolies
  1. plural of emboly
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