embolus
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Continuing his closing speech for a second day, Mr Myers told Manchester Crown Court the "overarching theory of air embolus" was at the "heart" of this case.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
"It was a pretty stark description of what sounded to be air embolus to me," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2022
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
Alternatively, plaque can break off and travel through the bloodstream as an embolus until it blocks a more distant, smaller artery.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Supervening upon her ordinary cardiac attack after supper, Mrs. Maldon had had, in the night, an embolus in one artery of the brain.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
Several months into the pandemic, doctors and scientists began to recognize that the coronavirus was causing blood clots, leading to strokes, heart attacks and emboli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
How do they escape the “bends”? The phenomenon where dissolved nitrogen resurfaces as bubbles causing emboli?
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
In this form the little vegetations are liable to become loosened, fly off into the blood stream, and cause emboli in different parts of the body.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
