Occlusion vs. Embolus — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Occlusion and Embolus
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Occlusion
The blockage or closing of a blood vessel or hollow organ.
Embolus
An embolus (; plural emboli; from the Greek ἔμβολος "wedge", "plug") is an unattached mass that travels through the bloodstream and is capable of creating blockages. When an embolus occludes a blood vessel, it is called an embolism or embolic event.
Occlusion
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.
Embolus
A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels through the bloodstream and lodges so as to obstruct or occlude a blood vessel.
Occlusion
The position of the teeth when the jaws are closed.
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Embolus
(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.
Occlusion
The process of occluding.
Embolus
(zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
Occlusion
Something that occludes.
Embolus
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
Occlusion
(Medicine) An obstruction of an anatomical passage, as of an artery by plaque.
Embolus
A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
Occlusion
(Dentistry) The alignment of the teeth of the upper and lower jaws when brought together.
Embolus
An abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
Occlusion
The process of occluding air masses.
Occlusion
An occluded front.
Occlusion
(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
The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
Occlusion
(medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
Occlusion
The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
Occlusion
(meteorology) An occluded front.
Occlusion
(phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
Occlusion
(physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
Occlusion
(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
Occlusion
The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
Constriction and occlusion of the orifice.
Occlusion
The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
Occlusion
Closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)
Occlusion
(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Occlusion
(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
Occlusion
An obstruction in a pipe or tube;
We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
Occlusion
The act of blocking
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