embolus

One of the issues Dr Lee said the panel had found was that skin discoloration noted on some of the babies was, he claimed, wrongly attributed to air embolus by the prosecution.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

"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

The blockage is from some type of embolus: a blood clot, a fat embolus, or an air bubble.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

If the embolus does not completely obstruct at once, it soon becomes sufficiently large for this result to ensue in consequence of a secondary coagulation.

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

Andrew Ladores passed on June 2 at the age of 49 due to pulmonary emboli that irreparably damaged his lungs and kidneys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

The medical examiner determined the victim died from systemic silicone emboli caused when unencapsulated silicone entered the bloodstream and caused an embolism.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2019

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