Word: emboli
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Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...
Although doctors have tried the new technique only on dogs, they hope to use it soon on human beings. Not only would it be invaluable for accidents, said Dr. Carlson last week, but it would also enable doctors to cut open blood vessels and remove emboli-clots which block circulation, may cause death...
...blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...