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Definition of Embolus
1. Noun. An abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood.
Definition of Embolus
1. n. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
Definition of Embolus
1. Noun. (pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the blood stream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embolus
1. an abnormal particle circulating in the blood [n -LI]
Medical Definition of Embolus
1. A clot formed by platelets or leucocytes that blocks a blood vessel. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embolus
Literary usage of Embolus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"In the unexpanded bulb (Fig. ii5), the long embolus makes a curve in the distal
end of ... 'I'he fulcrum is applied against the embolus on its concave side, ..."
2. An introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1884)
"If the embolus is a portion of a soft thrombus, it will in most cases be ...
embolus impacted at the Bifurcation of a Branch of the Pulmonary Artery. ..."
3. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"Should the embolus travel in the portal circulation, it generally becomes arrested
in the liver ; should it be carried by the systemic veins, ..."
4. Contributions to the Study of the Early Development and Imbedding of the by Thomas Hastie Bryce, John Hammond Teacher, John Martin Munro Kerr (1908)
"The injured blood-vessel dilates into a more or less globular aneurismal cavity,
and there may be considerable growth of the embolus in its interior before ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"It will be readily observed that the symptoms in such a case would depend upon
the organ or tissue in which the embolus lodged, the size and character of ..."
6. Modern Surgery: General and Operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1907)
"When an embolus lodges, it at once partially or entirely obstructs the ...
85 shows an impacted embolus. A non- septic embolus when lodged usually ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The patient perished within the next twenty-four hours from rapid oedema of the
lungs. embolus following Labor. ..."
8. Annals of Ophthalmology (1917)
"embolus of Central Artery. Dr. Neeper presented Miss W., aged seventeen years.
Right eye suddenly became blind while combing her hair at 7:40 am, ..."
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