Embolism

em′bo-lizm, n. the insertion of days in an account of time to produce regularity: an intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer: ( med. ) the presence of obstructing clots in the blood-ve els.— adjs. Embolis′mal , Embolis′mic .— n. Em′bolus , the clot of fibrin obstructing a blood-ve el, causing embolism. [Fr.,—Gr. embolismos — emballein , to cast in.]