embolus

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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

An embolus can occur when amniotic fluid gets into the maternal bloodstream.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 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

An embolus that is carried through the bloodstream can be large enough to block a vessel critical to a major organ.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

An embolus is a foreign body in a blood-vessel, usually too large to pass through the smallest capillaries, and the disturbances resulting from its presence are included under the term embolism.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various