English-Thai Dictionary

embolus

N สิ่ง อุดตัน เส้นเลือด  embolism sing-aud-tan-kong-sen-luead

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBOLUS

n.[Gr. to thrust in. ] Something inserted or acting in another; that which thrusts or drives; a piston.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMBOLUS

Em "bo *lus, n.; pl. Emboli. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Emblem. ]

 

1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

 

2. (Med. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

embolus

em bo lus |ˈembələs ˈɛmbələs | ▶noun ( pl. emboli |-ˌlī, -ˌlē | ) a blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object that has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism. DERIVATIVES em bol ic |emˈbälik |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (denoting something inserted or moving within another, specifically the plunger of a syringe ): from Latin, literally ‘piston, ’ from Greek embolos ‘peg, stopper. ’ The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

embolus

embolus |ˈɛmbələs | ▶noun ( pl. emboli |-lʌɪ, iː | ) a blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object which has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism. DERIVATIVES embolic adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (denoting something inserted or moving within another, specifically the plunger of a syringe ): from Latin, literally ‘piston ’, from Greek embolos ‘peg, stopper ’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.

 

Duden Dictionary

Embolus

Em bo lus Substantiv, maskulin Medizin , der |E mbolus |der Embolus; Genitiv: des Embolus, Plural: die Emboli griechisch émbolos = das Hineingeschobene; Pflock; Pfropf in der Blutbahn befindlicher Fremdkörper; Gefäßpfropf

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

embolus

em bo lus /émb (ə )ləs /名詞 複 -li /-laɪ /C 〘医 〙栓子, 塞栓 （そくせん ）(物 ) 〘血管やリンパ管をふさぐもの 〙.