Embolus

/ˈɛmbələs/

Synonyms for "embolus" (36 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Noun(1 words)
blood clot

Strong matches (10)

Related words (18)

Noun(6 words)
embolic materialembolus componentforeign bodymaterial fragmentoccluding particlethromboembolus

Related word relations

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More general

7 entries

More specific

6 entries
air embolusfat embolusseptic embolusthromboembolusthrombus fragmenttumor cell cluster

Collocations

6 entries
air embolusarterial embolusfat emboluspulmonary embolusthromboembolusvenous embolus

Inflections

2 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]

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