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Embolus
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
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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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Embolismic.
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Embolismic.
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Containing whole 1
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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