Definitions for embolus

embolus em·bo·lus

Spelling: [em-buh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈɛm bə ləs/

Embolus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in embolus (belmosu).

Definitions for embolus

noun

  1. undissolved material carried by the blood and impacted in some part of the vascular system, as thrombi or fragments of thrombi, tissue fragments, clumps of bacteria, protozoan parasites, fat globules, or gas bubbles.

Origin of embolus

1660-70; Latin: piston Greek émbolos stopper, equivalent to em- em-2 + bólos a throw, akin to bállein to throw

Examples for embolus

She had still no conception of what an embolus was; but she naturally assumed that Louis could define an embolus with exactitude.

Success has followed opening the artery and removing the embolus.

Detachment of a portion of the thrombus, according to Hoare, may result in the lodgment of an embolus in the brain or kidneys.

As a matter of fact, Batsch under embolus crocatus first presents an unmistakable description and figure.

The danger of an embolus plugging one of the smaller arteries is great and probably happens more often than we think.

And yet the mere naming of the affliction eased her, although she had no conception of what an embolus might be.

At the post-mortem examination the left and right branches of the pulmonary artery contained an embolus.

When this artery is blocked close to its origin by an embolus or thrombus, total aphasia results.

One month later he was seized with urgent dyspnœa and signs clearly indicating the lodgment of an embolus in the pulmonary artery.

An embolus occupied the pulmonary artery, resembling a blood-clot found in the left common and internal iliac veins.

Word Value for embolus
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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