Occlusion vs. Embolus

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.

Embolusnoun

(pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.

Embolusnoun

(zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.

Embolusnoun

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

Embolusnoun

A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

Embolusnoun

an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood

Embolus

An embolus (; plural emboli; from the Greek ἔμβολος , ) is an unattached mass that travels through the bloodstream and is capable of creating blockages. When an embolus occludes a blood vessel, it is called an embolism or embolic event.