All embolus synonyms

noun embolus

• barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• closure — The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
• siege — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
• infarction — the formation of an infarct.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
• blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
• clotting — Present participle of clot.
• clump — A clump of things such as trees or plants is a small group of them growing together.
• lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
• array — An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
• batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
• battery — Batteries are small devices that provide the power for electrical items such as radios and children's toys.
• body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
• bulk — You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
• bunch — A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together.
• bundle — A bundle of things is a number of them that are tied together or wrapped in a cloth or bag so that they can be carried or stored.
• cluster — A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together.
• coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd
• coalescence — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
• conglutination — glued together; adhering.
• consolidation — the act of consolidating or state of being consolidated
• curd — The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
• curdling — Present participle of curdle.
• embolism — Obstruction of an artery, typically by a clot of blood or an air bubble.
• glob — a drop or globule of a liquid.
• gob — the mouth.
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• grume — blood when viscous.
• occlusion — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• thickness — the state or quality of being thick.
• thrombus — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
• crassamentum — a blood clot