If an embolus breaks off in a systemic vein in the leg, it would be able to pass through the artery of lungs.
What is an embolus?
- An "embolus" means a blood clot that formed in a blood vessel in particular area of the body, breaks off, and travels to another area of the body through the blood.
- An "emboli" means there is more than one clot or piece of plaque.
- The word embolism means the clot or the plaque travels from the site where it was formed to another location in the body.
- This blockage of a blood vessel by an embolus is called an embolism.
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