embolus
Kelime Anlamı :

1. embolus.
2. damarın tıkanmasına yol açan pıhtı, hava kabarcığı, vb. engel.
3. embolüs.
4. tıkaç.
5. kan pıhtısı.
Tanımlar :
1. A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels through the bloodstream and lodges so as to obstruct or occlude a blood vessel.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
2. A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. it consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
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