What does embolic mean?

Definitions for embolic
ɛmˈbɒl ɪkem·bol·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. embolicadjective

    of or relating to an embolism or embolus

Wiktionary

  1. embolicadjective

    Of or relating to an embolus or an embolism.

  2. embolicadjective

    Pertaining to emboly.

Wikipedia

  1. embolic

    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. An embolism can cause partial or total blockage of blood flow in the affected vessel. Such a blockage (vascular occlusion) may affect a part of the body distant from the origin of the embolus. An embolism in which the embolus is a piece of thrombus is called a thromboembolism. An embolism is usually a pathological event, caused by illness or injury. Sometimes it is created intentionally for a therapeutic reason, such as to stop bleeding or to kill a cancerous tumor by stopping its blood supply. Such therapy is called embolization.

ChatGPT

  1. embolic

    Embolic refers to anything related to embolism, a condition where a blood vessel gets blocked by a substance, often a blood clot, that moves from another part of the body to the bloodstream. The term can be used to describe a treatment, a symptom, or a mechanism contributing to the condition or blocking the blood vessel. It can also be used to refer to an object or substance that causes an embolism.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Embolicadjective

    embolismic

  2. Embolicadjective

    pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess

  3. Embolicadjective

    pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination

  4. Etymology: [Gr. to throw in. See Embolism.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of embolic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of embolic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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