Usually means: Traveling clot blocking blood flow.
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  1. embolus: Merriam-Webster
  2. embolus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embolus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embolus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embolus: Vocabulary.com
  6. embolus: Wordnik
  7. embolus: Wiktionary
  8. embolus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. embolus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. embolus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. embolus: Dictionary.com
  12. Embolus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Embolus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. embolus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. embolus: Rhymezone
  16. Embolus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. embolus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. embolus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. embolus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. embolus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. embolus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. embolus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Embolus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. embolus: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  9. Embolus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embolus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See emboli as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (embolus)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.

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