embolus
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Continuing his closing speech for a second day, Mr Myers told Manchester Crown Court the "overarching theory of air embolus" was at the "heart" of this case.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
"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
When it becomes trapped, an embolus is called an embolism.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The echinococcus has been found as an embolus, and it is highly probable that the cysticercus, the trichina, and other animal parasites may be disseminated as emboli over the body.
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
In this form the little vegetations are liable to become loosened, fly off into the blood stream, and cause emboli in different parts of the body.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
