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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
embolus /ˈɛmbələs/

▶noun (pl. emboli /-lʌɪ, iː/) a blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object obstructing a blood vessel.

– derivatives
embolic adjective.

– origin C17 (denoting the plunger of a syringe): from L., lit. ‘piston’, from Gk embolos ‘peg, stopper’.

'embolus' also found in these Oxford entries:

embolectomy - embolization - infarction

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