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Air Embolism

Related Category: Pathology

see embolus.

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Embolus - foreign matter circulating in and obstructing a blood vessel. It may be a portion of a clot that has separated from the wall of a vessel a bubble of gas or air a globule of fat, a clump of bacteria...