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- Embolus - n. - Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
- Embolus - 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.