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
Prof Kinsey told the court the skin discolorations observed on Child A had "cemented" her concerns that he had suffered an air embolus.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2022
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
This is often caused by an embolus, which may be a blood clot or fat deposit.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
When the embolus reaches a point beyond which it cannot pass, the resulting disturbance depends essentially, as shown by Cohnheim, upon the presence or absence of arterial anastomoses beyond the place of obstruction.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Several months into the pandemic, doctors and scientists began to recognize that the coronavirus was causing blood clots, leading to strokes, heart attacks and emboli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
The lung problem, pulmonary emboli, had been dogging him for 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The death rate following the procedure was found to be 1 in 3,000 and all the fatal cases investigated featured fat emboli being found in the buttock muscle, he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2018
How do they escape the “bends”? The phenomenon where dissolved nitrogen resurfaces as bubbles causing emboli?
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
Is the formation of emboli in the terminal branches of arteries always dependent on the disintegration of thrombi?
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
