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The word ‘embolus’ comes from the Greek ‘embolos’ meaning a wedge or plug. ‘Embolos’ was derived from ‘en’ (in) + ‘ballein’ (to throw), so an embolus is something thrown in. A 1913 medical definition of an embolus was: ‘A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought to thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat or a microscopic organism.’ To this definition we must now add a material either as a therapeutic agent or inadvertently.

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Byrne, J.V. (2012). Embolic Agents. In: Tutorials in Endovascular Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19154-1_18

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