embolus

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One of the issues Dr Lee said the panel had found was that skin discoloration noted on some of the babies was, he claimed, wrongly attributed to air embolus by the prosecution.

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

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

Sarcoma may invade an adjacent vein on such a scale that if the invading portion becomes detached it may constitute a dangerous embolus.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis