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emboli
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of embolus English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood [also: emboli (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. (Med.) A plug of some substance lodged ...
Usage examples of emboli.
A shower of emboli from a calcified heart valve had been loosed during surgery and Frank Gork, formally Frank Segelman, had been left brain-dead.
Glass phials within which emboli floated, turning slowly in a tideless tide.
Most are discovered as emboli that took birth at some site distant from their final lodgment.
I had never known the meaning of insomnia, but for many nights, turgid jugular veins and floating emboli brought me gasping to wakefulness.