occlusion
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"But if we can see the ultrasound finding, we can target the exact place where the occlusion occurs."
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
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
The occlusion of small lung arteries is the major reason for the reduction in blood flow in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
Similar systems of occlusion and erasure are at work 150 years later in the current hype around AI.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
In secondary glaucoma in which occlusion of Fontana's spaces occurs as a result of the deposition of fibrin or other inflammatory products the anterior chamber may be of normal depth, or deeper than normal.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.
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