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embolize

British  
/ ˈɛmbəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to cause embolism in (a blood vessel)

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“My list of benign conditions that you’d embolize is pretty short,” he said.

From New York Times • May 14, 2018

“In general, you want to embolize it because you don’t want it to continue to get bigger and erode into the larger vessels of the kidney where it can cause significant bleeding,” he said.

From New York Times • May 14, 2018

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