Word: embolus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors dread an embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...weakness in her right arm and leg, and some speech difficulty. The trouble, Drs. Alfred J. Luessenhop and William T. Spence decided, was that part of the brain, with an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, was getting too much blood from an enlarged artery. So they wanted an embolus to serve as a stopper in this artery...