Embolism vs. Occlusion

Embolismnoun

(pathology) An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.

Embolismnoun

The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.

Embolismnoun

An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer.

Embolismnoun

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.

Embolismnoun

Intercalated time.

Embolismnoun

The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

Embolismnoun

an insertion into a calendar

Embolismnoun

occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)

Embolism

An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (gas embolism), amniotic fluid (amniotic fluid embolism), or foreign material.

Occlusionnoun

The process of occluding, or something that occludes.

Occlusionnoun

(medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.

Occlusionnoun

The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.

Occlusionnoun

(meteorology) An occluded front.

Occlusionnoun

(phonology) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.

Occlusionnoun

(physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.

Occlusionnoun

(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

Occlusionnoun

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

Occlusionnoun

The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.

Occlusionnoun

closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

Occlusionnoun

(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

Occlusionnoun

(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

Occlusionnoun

an obstruction in a pipe or tube;

Occlusionnoun

the act of blocking

Occlusionnoun

the blockage or closing of a blood vessel or hollow organ.

Occlusionnoun

a process by which the cold front of a rotating low-pressure system catches up the warm front, so that the warm air between them is forced upwards off the earth's surface between wedges of cold air.

Occlusionnoun

an occluded front.

Occlusionnoun

the position of the teeth when the jaws are closed.