adjective
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of or relating to an embolus or embolism
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embryol of, relating to, or resulting from invagination
Etymology
Origin of embolic
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But Fahd's health has deteriorated ever since he suffered an embolic stroke last November, and a tug-of-war is already ongoing at the highest levels of the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was brought in right after his first embolic stroke at work.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
In some cases the vessel wall is softened by arteritis—especially the embolic form—so that it yields before the pressure of the blood.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
A source of embolism must also be associated, that these scars may be regarded as of embolic origin.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
But in these epibolic forms, just as in the embolic Paludina, the embryo proceeds to develop its ciliated band and shell-gland, passing through the earlier condition of a trochosphere to that of the veliger.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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