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Meaning Of Embolus
n.
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a
pump or syringe.
n.
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.