embolus
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However those arguments were rejected as three senior judges concluded there had been no prosecution expert evidence diagnosing air embolus solely on the basis of skin discolouration.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
She told the court that if the cause of death was established as air embolus, then it would have come from the person connecting the fluids, "which wasn't me".
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
Fat in the bloodstream after an injury like mine signaled the possibility of a fat embolus, a rare but potentially fatal complication of long-bone fractures.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2015
An embolus that is carried through the bloodstream can be large enough to block a vessel critical to a major organ.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
An embolus is a foreign body in a blood-vessel, usually too large to pass through the smallest capillaries, and the disturbances resulting from its presence are included under the term embolism.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Andrew Ladores passed on June 2 at the age of 49 due to pulmonary emboli that irreparably damaged his lungs and kidneys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
He was immediately placed on a course of treatment but he died on 15 May from the pulmonary emboli and pneumonia.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
The lung problem, pulmonary emboli, had been dogging him for 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
How do they escape the “bends”? The phenomenon where dissolved nitrogen resurfaces as bubbles causing emboli?
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
Such venous emboli are carried toward the heart, but are stopped on the way by the intrahepatic branches of the portal vein.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
