embolus

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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

"For me air embolus fits with what the medical staff on the ground saw," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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

Success has followed opening the artery and removing the embolus.

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