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Air Embolism

Definitions: Air Embolism

Air Embolism

Noun

1. 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.
 



Specialty Definitions: Air Embolism

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Air Embolism

Synonyms: aeroembolism (n), bends (n), caisson disease (n), decompression sickness (n), gas embolism (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Air Embolism

Specialty definitions using "air embolism": Embolism, Air. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Embolism

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

air embolism

21
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Modern Translations: Air Embolism

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

   

Portuguese

  

embolia gasosa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

embolia gaseosa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

luftembolism, luftemboli (aeroembolism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Air Embolism

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Air Embolism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72      45 6D 62 6F 6C 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000101 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#69 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#109

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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