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paradoxical embolism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables
para-dox-i-cal em-bolism
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels, that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. It may be solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

The term was coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn in 1885

Usage

Inflected Forms

paradoxical embolisms (plural)

Questions

What does paradoxical embolism mean?
A free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels, that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. It may be solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).
Where does paradoxical embolism come from?
The term was coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn in 1885

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