Word: embolus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in the Annals of Surgery, Drs. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin and Francis Clark Wood told how they saved the life of their young colleague with one of the boldest operations in modern medicine-removal of an embolus from a main artery...
...confused with embolism. A thrombus stays in one place; an embolus, which might be a blood clot, or a pocket of air or oil, moves through the blood stream. If an embolus settles down, it becomes a thrombus...