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Definitions: Air Embolism |
Air EmbolismNoun1. Obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving. 2. Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Occurs when the lungs over expand to the point that air bubbles are forced through the air sacs of the lungs into the circulatory system. (references) |
Medicine | Occurs when the lungs overespand to the point that air bubbles are forced through the air sacs of the lungs into the circulatory system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Air bubble that causes dangerous obstruction of blood flow; May be due to injury, intravenous injection or surgery. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Air EmbolismSynonyms: aeroembolism (n), bends (n), caisson disease (n), decompression sickness (n), gas embolism (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Air Embolism |
| Specialty definitions using "air embolism": Embolism, Air. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
air embolism | 21 |
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| Language | Translations for "air embolism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | luftemboli (aeroembolism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luchtembolie (aeroembolism, bends). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilmaembolia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aero-embolisme, surpression pulmonaire, embolie gazeuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Luftembolie (aeroembolism), Barotrauma der Lunge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αερώδης εμβολή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sovradistensione polmonare, iperpressione polmonare, embolia gassosa (bends). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airay embolismay embolia gasosa. (various references) embolia gaseosa. (various references) luftembolism, luftemboli (aeroembolism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: airmobile, imbalmers, meliorism, memorials. | |
-3 letters: biramose, embolism, embroils, imbalmer, immobile, memorial, milesimo, mislabor, mobilise, moralise, moralism, ramilies. | |
-4 letters: alibies, amblers, ambries, bailers, bailies, bailors, balmier, bialies, blamers, boilers, bromals, bromism, embalms, embroil, imbalms, immoral, isobare, lambers, lambier, lambies, limbers, limbier, limmers, loamier, mailers, maimers, malmier, mamboes, marbles, melisma, memoirs, milreis, mimbars, mobiles, moilers, morales, obelias, obelism, oralism, rambles, ramilie, realism, reboils, remails, risible, similar, slammer, slimier, slimmer. | |
-5 letters: abseil, aimers, aiolis, alibis, ambers, ambler, ambles, amoles, ariels, ariose, ariosi, armies, bailer, bailie, bailor, balers, barmie, bialis, biomes, birles, blamer, blames, blares, blears, boiler, borals, boreal, brails, braise, brasil, breams, broils, bromal, bromes, emails, embalm, embars, emboli, imbalm, immies, isobar, isomer, labors, lamber, lambie, lemmas, liaise, libers, librae, libras, limbas, limber, limbos, limier, limmer, lories, mailer, mailes, maimer, mambos, mamies, marble, mbiras, memoir, mesial, milers, mimbar, mimeos, mimers, mimosa, misaim, mislie, mobile, moiler, moirai, moires, molars, molies, momser, morale, morals, morels, morsel, obelia, obiism, oilers, oilier, ombers, ombres, oribis, oriels, rabies, ramble, ramies, ramose, realms, reboil, remail, reoils, resail, ribose, rimose, robles, sailer, sailor, samiel, serail, serial, simile, simmer, smiler, somber, sombre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-s" | |
+3 letters: memorabilities. | |
+5 letters: commensurability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72      45 6D 62 6F 6C 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000101 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r   E m b o l i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072      0045 006D 0062 006F 006C 0069 0073 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35758423979688178758579 |
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