01 n. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
pl.
Emboli ((#))
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1.
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
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2.
A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.(Med.)