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Definition: EMBOLI |
EMBOLIPlural1. Of Embolus |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Bit of foreign matter which enters the blood stream at one point and is carried until it is lodged or impacted in an artery and obstructs it. It may be a blood clot, an air bubble, fat or other tissue, or clumps of bacteria. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: EMBOLI |
| Specialty definitions using "EMBOLI": Basal Ganglia Cerebrovascular Disease ♦ Embolization, Therapeutic ♦ Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis ♦ Spinal Cord Ischemia, Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases ♦ Uveitis, Suppurative ♦ Vertebral Artery Dissection. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "EMBOLI": Embolus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "EMBOLI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (embolism), Swedish (embolism). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Tamoxifen is associated with a small, increased risk of endometrial cancer, pulmonary emboli, and deep vein thrombosis, particularly for women 50 years old or older. (references) | |
COPD patients may develop acute respiratory failure when their chronic airway obstruction is complicated by infections, pulmonary emboli, heart failure, and drug-induced respiratory depression. (references) | ||
Clots in the blood are usually filtered out by the lungs, but PFO could allow emboli or blood clots to bypass the lungs and go directly through the arteries to the brain, potentially causing a stroke. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EMBOLI" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "EMBOLI" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (plural) | 40% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "EMBOLI": parenkym-emboli. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
pulmonary emboli | 38 |
emboli | 9 |
emboli fat | 4 |
cholesterol emboli | 3 |
emboli purpura shower thrombcytopenic thrombotic | 2 |
emboli septic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EMBOLI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | embolus, vérrög (gout), érdugó. (various references) | ||||
Korean | ìƒ‰ì „ (Embolus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emboliay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | embolus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EMBOLI": embolic, embolies, embolism, embolismic, embolisms, embolization, embolizations. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EMBOLI": aeroembolism, aeroembolisms, thromboembolic, thromboembolism, thromboembolisms. (additional references) | |
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"EMBOLI" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benbolio, Dembele, eboli, ebolli, Ebulo, Eibli, embel, Emberley, embla, Emblow, Embo, embolim, Embu, emjoi, Emmelle, emoil, emole, emollit, empoli, Gembloux, Ibmol, Imoli, Mboui, Mboyi, umbili, umbudi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mobile. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: biome, limbo, obeli. | |
-2 letters: bile, boil, bole, limb, lime, limo, lobe, mile, milo, moil, mole. | |
-3 letters: bel, bio, elm, lei, lib, lie, lob, mel, mib, mil, mob, mol, obe, obi, oil, ole. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, bo, el, em, li, lo, me, mi, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: embolic, embroil, mobiles, obelism. | |
+2 letters: bloomier, bromelin, comblike, embolies, embolism, embroils, forelimb, imbolden, immobile, mobilise, mobilize, nobelium, obelisms, tomblike, womblike. | |
+3 letters: airmobile, amphibole, bloomiest, bromelain, bromeliad, bromelins, columbine, columbite, embolisms, embroiled, forelimbs, homebuilt, imboldens, immovable, mailboxes, metabolic, mobilised, mobilises, mobilized, mobilizes, nobeliums, nonmobile, omissible, skimobile, symbolise, symbolize. | |
+4 letters: abominable, amphiboles, automobile, becomingly, beglooming, biomedical, biopolymer, blithesome, bloomeries, bolometric, bolshevism, bookmobile, bromelains, bromeliads, columbines, columbites, combinable, comestible, compatible, demobilize, disembowel, embolismic, emboweling, embroiling, formidable, hemoglobin, imboldened, immobilize, immovables, importable, impossible, improbable, improvable, lobotomies, lobotomise, lobotomize, mailbombed, metabolism, metabolite, metabolize, middlebrow, mindblower, mislabored, mobilities, modifiable, multilobed, outclimbed, pimpmobile, reblooming, remobilize, skimobiles, snowmobile, symbolised, symbolises, symbolized, symbolizer, symbolizes, zombielike. | |
+5 letters: abolishment, amblygonite, amortizable, amphibolies, amphibolite, automobiled, automobiles, beclamoring, beglamoring, bimolecular, bimonthlies, biochemical, biomaterial, biometrical, biomolecule, biopolymers, bloodmobile, boilermaker, bolshevisms, bookmobiles, combatively, combustible, comestibles, committable, compactible, compatibles, confirmable, demobilized, demobilizes, disembowels, emblazoning, emboldening, embowelling, embroilment, hemoglobins, imboldening, immobilized, immobilizer, immobilizes, indomitable, irremovable, irremovably, lobectomies, lobotomised, lobotomises, lobotomized, lobotomizes, memorabilia, memorizable, mentionable, meroblastic, metabolisms, metabolites, metabolized, metabolizes, microtubule, middlebrows, mindblowers, molybdenite, pimpmobiles, problematic, rambouillet, remobilized, remobilizes, snowmobiler, snowmobiles, symbolizers, symbologies, tolbutamide. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 42 4F 4C 49 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- -... --- .-.. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001101 01000010 01001111 01001100 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M B O L I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D 0042 004F 004C 0049 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)394736494643 |
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