Emboli

Word EMBOLI
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Emboli"

What do we mean by emboli?

An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.

The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.

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The word "emboli" in example sentences

Blood clots, or pulmonary emboli, had proliferated out of nowhere. ❋ Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2008)

Farr was finishing medical school at Washington University in St. Louis when the University of Virginia Medical Center checked in its first case of MRSA on March 13, 1978, a man with endocarditis that released septic emboli into his circulatory system. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

On an X-ray, the radiologists could see collections of fluid in his shoulders and elbows, and septic emboli—clots of infected tissue that had broken off from somewhere else in his body—that had lodged in his lungs. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

Tissue in his lower left lung was dying, and septic emboli were wearing holes in his lungs and collecting in his kidneys. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

Turns out the reviewers did note that weekly estrogen exposure was higher in patch than pill users, and directly related this data to the two pulmonary emboli reported in clinical trials. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2008)

Jay went home after a week, still on IV antibiotics—but the combination of MRSA and the blood thinners he took to prevent more emboli kept the long incision in his abdomen from healing. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

But it also cleared the drug as a possible endocarditis treatment, because septic emboli would be within the bloodstream, not on the surface of the lung. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

In some children, the infection showered septic emboli, blood clots that also contained infection, into their lungs, brains, and hearts.41 Then another group in Dallas—at Parkland, the enormous public hospital that older Americans know as the place where President John F. Kennedy was declared dead—found yet another very serious syndrome. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

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