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air embolisms

air embolisms is the plural of air embolism.

Meaning of air embolism

Noun

air embolism (plural air embolisms)

  1. condition caused by bubbles of gas in a vascular system.
    • Lieutenant Axel suspected an air embolism, meaning that Savino had taken a breath and held it before they’d pulled him up. As the pressure around him dropped to sea level, the pressure exerted by the air inside his lungs would have mounted until a bubble was expelled into his bloodstream. It would...2017, Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach, Corsair, page 290
    Synonyms:
    aeroembolism, gas embolism

Questions about air embolisms

What is air embolisms the plural of?
Air embolisms is the plural of air embolism.

Words near air embolisms in the dictionary

  1. air duct
  2. air ducts
  3. air duster
  4. air dusters
  5. air embolism
  6. air embolisms
  7. air engine
  8. air engines
  9. air filter
  10. air filters
  11. air flow

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