Words Like EMBOLISM
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3 Alternative Words Similar to embolism
9 definitions of embolism
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An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.
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The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.
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Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years in an account of time.
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In pathology, the obstruction of a vessel by a clot of fibrin or other substance abnormally present and brought into the current of the circulating medium from some more or less distant locality. Embolism commonly causes paralysis in the brain, with more or less of an apoplectic shock.
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In liturgics, a prayer for deliverance from evil, inserted in almost all liturgies after the Lord's Prayer, as an expansion of or addition to its closing petition, whence the name. Also embolismus.
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an insertion into a calendar
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occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)