air embolism
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air embolism
noun air embolisms
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condition caused by bubbles of gas in a vascular system.
Lieutenant Axel suspected an air embolism, meaning that Savino had taken a breath and held it before they’d pulled him up. As the pressure around him dropped to sea level, the pressure exerted by the air inside his lungs would have mounted until a bubble was expelled into his bloodstream. It would t
Similar: aeroembolism, gas embolism
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noun condition caused by bubbles of gas
| Italiano | aeroembolismo |
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