embolism
Example Sentences
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It halted a Phase 3 clinical trial last year testing the effectiveness of the experimental drug for stroke and systemic embolism prevention.
Dr Marnerides said in his opinion there was "no evidence that a natural disease would explain his death" and concluded that death was "explicable on the basis of air embolism".
From BBC
Melugin’s desire to be in Los Angeles stems from the sudden death of his father, Gary, a West Coast manager for insurance company AIG, who suffered a pulmonary embolism at age 55.
From Los Angeles Times
“There is a reported risk of pulmonary embolism among postmenopausal women taking estrogen,” Bluming says.
From New York Times
Trying to do so strains the xylem, introducing air bubbles that clog the tubes and starve tissues of water—similar to the way that deadly air embolisms cut off animals’ blood flow.
From Scientific American
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