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Embolism   Listen
noun
Embolism  n.  
1.
Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
2.
Intercalated time.
3.
(Med.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.





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"Embolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... swollen veins. He did not dare to counsel Flagg as to his motions or his emotions. But he felt sure that an old man could not indulge in such transports without danger. He knew something about the effects of an embolism. His violent grandfather had been a victim of a fit of flaming anger ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day


Words linked to "Embolism" :   intercalation, air embolism, time interval, occlusion, fat embolism, gas embolism, pulmonary embolism, embolic


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