embolectomy

British

/ ˌɛmbəˈlɛktəmɪ /

noun

the surgical removal of an embolus that is blocking a blood vessel

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Dr. Murray: "There are few operations in surgery so eminently satisfactory in selected cases or attended by such potentiality for good as embolectomy for arterial embolus."

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If embolectomy is performed within ten hours after the clot cuts off circulation in a limb, Dr. deTakats finds that 40% of the cases will recover the use of the member.

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