occlusion

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The drugmaker said the Food and Drug Administration had approved Eylea HD for the treatment of patients with macular edema following retinal vein occlusion, a common cause of vision impairment in adults.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

These unique cardiac metabolic and genetic features of the naked mole-rat heart led to enhanced energy reserves even during blood occlusion and return of blood flow after in vitro simulated heart attack.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

Vascular occlusion is another potential complication, where a blood vessel blockage prevents blood from moving through pathways in your body.

From BBC • May 9, 2023

What a formidable object of occlusion, that door by which no one had entered for twenty years!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander