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Pulmonary Embolism Learning Center

A pulmonary embolus is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by fat, air, a blood clot, or tumor cells.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 27, 2009
Pulmonary embolism is an obstruction of a blood vessel in the lungs, usually due to a blood clot, which blocks a coronary artery.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
An embolism is an obstruction in a blood vessel due to a blood clot or other foreign matter that gets stuck while traveling through the bloodstream. The plural of embolism is emboli.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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