How to Use embolism in a Sentence

embolism

noun
  • Several months later, her father died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Was the culprit the hypotension caused by the embolism?
    Scientific American, 24 July 2017
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said a daughter, Lena Salins.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • There's different levels of stroke, to the point of an embolism, which kills you.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The cause of death was suspected to be a pulmonary embolism.
    Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said his wife, Deidre DiMizio.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot is stuck in an artery in the lung, blocking blood flow to part of the lung.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The second problem is that if the atria don’t contract, the blood can pool and clot, putting a person at risk for embolism.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 June 2021
  • The blood clots can travel to your lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said a brother, Peter Kallan.
    Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • The Boston Globe reported that the embolism traveled from his leg to his lungs.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 7 July 2017
  • Mensah was on the team but sidelined by a pulmonary embolism.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In the past two years, Cheryl Bruce has had a pulmonary embolism and a second knee replacement.
    The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Along with the embolism, Aventer Gray wrote that more blood clots were also found in her husband’s lungs.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • The 2017 research shows that the cause of death in the majority of these cases was a pulmonary fat embolism.
    Melanie Rud, SELF, 30 Sep. 2022
  • To look for blood clots in the lung, or a pulmonary embolism, your doctor would order a CT scan with contrast.
    L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The virus, which put her in the hospital three more times over the next four months, caused a pulmonary embolism, a rapid heart rate, fatigue and hair loss.
    Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said Michael McGowan, his husband.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Lewis lost her father to a pulmonary embolism and her mother to a car accident in a span of months in 2014.
    Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The second condition is called pulmonary embolism, or PE, which is a blood clot in the lungs that may have traveled from the legs.
    Essence, 1 May 2020
  • There was also the chance the clot would take a different path toward the heart and result in a pulmonary embolism.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2020
  • That came a year after he was sidelined with a pulmonary embolism.
    A.j. Perez, USA TODAY, 24 May 2017
  • This decreases the chance of a fat embolism, which often results in death.
    Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 7 May 2022
  • That’s when blood clots form in the veins and can lead to part of the clot traveling to the lungs and causing blockage, also called a pulmonary embolism.
    Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Pulmonary embolism is the sudden blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs.
    Jeff Maillet, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Poor often treats patients for pulmonary embolism, a large clot in the lungs that can quickly kill.
    Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • There have been 15 reports of clots in the legs, called deep vein thrombosis, and 22 cases of blood clots that reached the lungs, known as a pulmonary embolism.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2021
  • There are two types of clots: deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
    Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
  • So be aware of any symptoms that may be suspicious for a pulmonary embolism.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Pulmonary embolism is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when a blood clot gets lodged in an artery in the lungs, blocking blood flow.
    James R. Sanders, VIBE.com, 18 Aug. 2024

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