embolism (embolizm)

[= F. embolisme = Sp. Pg. It. embolismo, LL. embolimæus ), inserted, intercalated (cf. έμβολος, something thrown or thrust in: see embolus, 2), 2. Intercalated time.-3. In pathol., the obstruction of a ve el by a clot of fibrin or other substance abnormally present and brought into the current of the circulating medium from some more or le distant locality. Embolism commonly causes paralysis in the brain, with more or le of an apoplectic shock.-4. In liturgics, a prayer for deliverance from evil, inserted in almost all liturgies after the Lord's Prayer, as an expansion of or addition to its closing petition, whence the name. Also embo lismus. Also emboli a .