Embolism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 243 anagrams from letters in embolism (beilmmos).
1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin embolismus intercalation Late Greek embolismós, equivalent to embol- (see embolus) + -ismos -ism
It may also mean that embolism has taken place, and the pulmonary artery is blocked, withholding blood from the lungs.
Death in such circumstances is usually attributed to embolism of the pulmonary artery.
It is often due to embolism of infective material, gangrenous matter, etc.
In advanced sclerosis there may be one or more of a series of accidents due to embolism, thrombosis, or rupture of the vessels.
Hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
My own physician, Doctor Chesnard, has just been here and suggests that it is an embolism.
It also predisposes to embolism and thrombosis, Insanity due to Arterial Degeneration.
We must note in this connection the tendency to embolism that exists in this disease.
Thrombosis is favored, and where atheromatous ulcers are formed, embolism is to be feared.
embolism plays an important part in determining one form of gangrene, as has already been described.