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De - Pt| English Dictionary: embolus | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for embolus | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Embolus \Em"bo*lus\, n.; pl. {Emboli}. [L., fr. Gr. [?] pointed so as to be put or thrust in, fr. [?] to throw, thrust, or put in. See {Emblem}.] 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. 2. (Med.) 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. | |
