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Embolus

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

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Clot 76% connected

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

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Coagulum 76% connected

The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

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Embolic 74% connected

Embolismic.

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Embolic 74% connected

Embolismic.

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Embolism 70% connected

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek…

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