DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan
216.73.216.146
Search for:
▼[Show options]
[Pronunciation] [Help] [Database Info] [Server Info]

4 definitions found

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 em·bo·lus /ˈɛmbələs/
 栓子,栓塞物

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 em·bo·lus /ˈɛmbələs/ 名詞
 栓子

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·bo·lus n.; pl. Emboli
 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
 2. Med. 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.
 ◄ ►

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 embolus
      n : an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot)
          circulating in the blood
      [also: emboli (pl)]