[em-buh-luh
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[-lahy] . Pathology. | 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. |
| em·bo·li (ěm'bə-lī') n. Plural of embolus. |
| em·bo·lus (ěm'bə-ləs) n. pl. em·bo·li (-lī') A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels through the bloodstream and lodges so as to obstruct or occlude a blood vessel. [Latin, piston of a pump, from Greek embolos, stopper, plug, from emballein, to insert; see emblem.] |
embolus em·bo·lus (ěm'bə-ləs)
n. pl. em·bo·li (-lī')
A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels in the bloodstream and lodges in a blood vessel, thus serving to obstruct or occlude such a vessel.