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In medicine an embolism (plural embolisms; from the Greek ἐμβολισμός interposition) refers to the lodging of an embolus which may be a blood clot a fat globule or a gas bubble in the bloodstream which can cause a blockage. Such a blockage (vascular occlusion) may affect a part of the body distanced from the actual site of the embolism.

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