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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Embolus \Em"bo*lus\, n.; pl {Emboli}. [L., fr Gr ? pointed so as to be put or thrust in fr ? to throw, thrust, or put in See {Emblem}.] 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 1.6 [wn]: embolus n : an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
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