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
The blockage is from some type of embolus: a blood clot, a fat embolus, or an air bubble.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
When this artery is blocked close to its origin by an embolus or thrombus, total aphasia results.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Since then, the Eagles and Hurts’s agent confirmed that he had been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary emboli, or clots in his lungs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
On Monday, the Eagles announced he had been diagnosed with a deep-vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The lung problem, pulmonary emboli, had been dogging him for 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
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
Since emboli are frequently lodged near the surfaces of organs, a septic pleurisy, pericarditis, or peritonitis is the usual result of the dissemination of the virus contained in the embolus.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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