Embolism vs. Occlusion — What's the Difference?

An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (gas embolism), amniotic fluid (amniotic fluid embolism), or foreign material.

The blockage or closing of a blood vessel or hollow organ.

Obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus.

A process by which the cold front of a rotating low-pressure system catches up the warm front, so that the warm air between them is forced upwards off the earth's surface between wedges of cold air.

An embolus.

The position of the teeth when the jaws are closed.

(pathology) An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.

The process of occluding.

The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.

Something that occludes.

An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer.

(Medicine) An obstruction of an anatomical passage, as of an artery by plaque.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

(Dentistry) The alignment of the teeth of the upper and lower jaws when brought together.

Intercalated time.

The process of occluding air masses.

The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

An occluded front.

An insertion into a calendar

(Linguistics) Closure at some point in the vocal tract that blocks the flow of air in the production of an oral or nasal stop.

Occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)

The process of occluding, or something that occludes.

(medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.

The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.

(meteorology) An occluded front.

(phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.

(physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.

(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.

Closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

An obstruction in a pipe or tube;

The act of blocking