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.
Food and Drug Administration in 2021 warned against using silicone injections to enlarge or shape parts of the body, saying the injections can cause long-term pain, embolisms, disfigurement, stroke and death.
From Los Angeles Times
Eligible patients include those with conditions such as pneumonia, urinary sepsis and pulmonary embolism.
From BBC
The risk is fat clots that could travel up to the heart and lungs and become a deadly embolism.
From Salon
Grainge grew up in the U.K. in comfortable but trying circumstances: As his mother, Samantha Berg, was giving birth to him, she entered a coma as a result of an embolism and never recovered.
From Los Angeles Times
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