embolus

== English == === Etymology === The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛmbələs/ === Noun === embolus (plural emboli or emboluses) (pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel. (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɛmbolus] === Noun === embolus m inan embolus (an obstruction causing an embolism) Synonym: vmetek ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “embolus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “embolus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 == Latin == === Alternative forms === imbolus (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛm.bɔ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛm.bo.lus] === Noun === embolus m (genitive embolī); second declension piston (Medieval Latin) alley, back street (New Latin) anything oblong that can be thrusted into something, peg, plug, rod (New Latin) gunstick, ramrod (New Latin) any foreign body, especially a migrated thrombus, that travels through the blood vessels, such that it becomes lodged ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: èmbol → Czech: embolus → English: embolus → Spanish: émbolo === References === “embolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "embolus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “embolus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.