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Webster 1913 Edition
Embolus
Em′bo-lus
,Noun.
pl.
Emboli
(#)
. [L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] pointed so as to be put or thrust in, fr. [GREEK] to throw, thrust, or put in. See
Emblem
.] 1.
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Embolus
EM'BOLUS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
embolus
embolus
English
Noun
embolus (plural emboli or emboluses)
- (pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
- (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
- 1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins 1996, p. 22:
- Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]
- 1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins 1996, p. 22:
Derived terms
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Translations
An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈem.bo.lus/, [ˈɛm.bɔ.ɫʊs]
Noun
embolus m (genitive embolī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | embolus | embolī |
| genitive | embolī | embolōrum |
| dative | embolō | embolīs |
| accusative | embolum | embolōs |
| ablative | embolō | embolīs |
| vocative | embole | embolī |
References
- embolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- EMBOLUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “embolus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.