embolism

(XIV^e siècle) Du latin embolismus, apparait avec le sens de « embolisme, intercalation » ; le sens médical date de 1855.

embolism \Prononciation ?\

1. (Nosologie) Embolie.
   • An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. — (embolism sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais) )
2. Embolisme, intercalation.
   • Authorities differ as to the manner in which the Arabs practised embolism: some say, they added a month to every third year; others, that they intercalated seven months in a period of nineteen years ; and others, nine months in twenty-four years. — (The Asiatic journal and monthly miscellany‎, 1844)

• intercalation

• embolismic

• embolus

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