(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(3) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(4) It was concluded that the mixture is much more satisfactory than the conventional cyanoacrylates as an embolus material in vitro.
(5) There was a 12.6% incidence of pulmonary embolism, but only 1.9% of all patients developed a symptomatic pulmonary embolus.
(6) The common lung or pulmonary perfusion scan using macroaggregates of albumin or microspheres radiolabeled also gives information as to the presence of thrombosis of embolus within the pulmonary arteries, by showing the effect upon the perfusion pattern.
(7) A deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus was found in 1.7% and was no less common in the 25% of the patients who received pharmacologic anticoagulation.
(8) If the source of the embolus can be located, medical or surgical therapy may be able to prevent the occurrence of further strokes.
(9) The total incidence of postoperative pulmonary embolus was 3.2%, with two-thirds asymptomatic and one-third symptomatic pulmonary emboli.
(10) A missile embolus, an extremely rare lesion, presents an unusual and challenging problem for the clinician.
(11) Failure to define a source of embolus kept them in the category of IUC.
(12) Anticoagulants have not been administered postoperatively, and one patient has had a systemic embolus.
(13) Low AA and low H-AA (Pattern D) developed in sera of eight patients with thrombophlebitis and seven patients with pulmonary embolus.
(14) Many patients who suffer a massive pulmonary embolus die despite emergent therapy.
(15) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(16) In 9 cases, it was an air embolus, in 4 others an atheromatous embolus.
(17) The thrombolytic and pharmacokinetic properties of staphylokinase were compared with those of streptokinase in hamsters with a pulmonary embolus produced from human plasma or from hamster plasma, and in rabbits with a jugular vein blood clot produced from rabbit blood.
(18) From this an embolus may detach to the right hemisphere of the brain resulting in left sided hemiplegia.
(19) The mortality with modern therapy was 12%, and the major complication was cerebral embolus.
(20) In Group A the detection of air embolus varied from 6% using an oesophageal stethoscope to 58% by the Doppler method.
Occlusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
(n.) The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
Example Sentences:
(1) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(2) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(3) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(4) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.
(5) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(6) We reviewed our experience with femorofemoral bypass during the past 10 years to define its role relative to other methods in the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.
(7) Plasmin-alpha 2-antiplasmin complex was not detected in any of the subjects after venous occlusion.
(8) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(9) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(10) Atrial extrasystoles and short sequences of atrial tachycardias were observed in most dogs after occlusion.
(11) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(12) Review of the records of five patients with CPSE treated with radiologic occlusion procedures showed that these are suitable alternatives to surgery.
(13) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(14) The pain response will be significantly better than the dysfunction response when the patient is treated with an occlusal splint.
(15) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(16) The risk of total occlusion and clot formation in the renal artery after subintimal injection is high.
(17) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(18) The same dose of clonidine evoked a much larger drop in blood pressure in another group of rats in which an equialent increase in blood pressure was produced by bilateral section of the vagosympathetic trunks and occlusion of both carotid arteries.
(19) At autopsy, 3 of the 15 patients who had normal angiograms were found not to have had thrombotic occlusions.
(20) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."