Usually means: Gas bubble blocks blood vessel.
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  1. air embolism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. air embolism: Vocabulary.com
  3. air-embolism: Wordnik
  4. air embolism: Wiktionary
  5. air embolism: Dictionary.com
  6. Air embolism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. air embolism: Rhymezone
  8. air embolism: FreeDictionary.org
  9. air embolism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. air embolism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Embolism, air, air embolism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. air embolism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Air embolism: Merck Manuals
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  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Embolism, air, air embolism: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (air embolism)

noun:  (pathology) condition caused by bubbles of gas in a vascular system.

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