EMBOLISM

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

Intercalated time. Johnson.

3.
n.

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


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