Found 2 items, similar to Emboli.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: emboli
emboli
See
embolus
embolus
n : an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot)
circulating in the blood
[also:
emboli (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Emboli
Embolus
\Em"bo*lus\, n.; pl.
Emboli. [L., fr. Gr. ? pointed so
as to be put or thrust in, fr. ? to throw, thrust, or put in.
See
Emblem.]
1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a
pump or syringe.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Med.) 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.
[1913 Webster]