embolism

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun Obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus.
  2. noun An embolus.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (7)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Stotland's review of obesity and pregnancy hardly mentioned thromboembolism,1 yet pulmonary embolism is the leading direct cause of maternal death in the UK, with 33 deaths between 2003 and 2005. —  BMJ Latest Articles
  • Deep vein thrombosis, which can cause pain in the legs, is an early form of VTE, while pulmonary embolism is a frequently fatal, advanced form of the condition caused by a clot that travels to the lungs. —  Turkish Press
  • Ed Martin died of a pulmonary embolism, and his son said that his father's friends maintain that the stress from the scandal killed him. —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
  • Deanna had, they told the family, most likely died from an amniotic fluid embolism -- a known, dangerous, and difficult to treat complication of later abortions. —  RealChoice
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, his wife, Linda, said. —  BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
More examples »
 

Tags

embolism hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 82 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English embolisme, insertion of one or more days in a calendar, from Late Latin embolismus, from Greek embolismos, from emballein, to insert; see emblem.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French embolisme = Spanish Portuguese Italian embolismo, from Late Latin embolismus, intercalation (also as adjective intercalary, an error for embolimus), as if from Greek *ἐμβολισμός, from ἐμβόλιμος (LGr. also ἐμβολιμαῑος, later Late Latin embolimæus), inserted, intercalated (cf. ἒμβολος, something thrown or thrust in: see embolus, 2), from ἐμβάλλειν, throw in, put in, insert: see embolus.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈɛmbəlɪzm/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

albiet · triumvirate · grade · child-like · pigs

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda