occlusion

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In November, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug for use in patients with macular edema following retinal vein occlusion, a condition where leaky blood vessels in the eye cause swelling.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

"But if we can see the ultrasound finding, we can target the exact place where the occlusion occurs."

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

The occlusion of small lung arteries is the major reason for the reduction in blood flow in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

What a formidable object of occlusion, that door by which no one had entered for twenty years!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander