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What does embolize mean?

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Verb
  1. To perform an embolization.
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He had undergone several procedures to embolize the abnormality, and this was stable, but he had disabling seizures every day, lasting from 30 to 60 minutes.
Preoperative angiograms can be useful in locating all sources of vascular supply to the placenta and if possible to embolize vessels difficult to ligate operatively.
Consequently, by using embolizing material to selectively embolize blood vessels in the hepatic artery, selective necrosis can be more effectively induced at the tumor site.
Thrombus in this location may embolize during the cardiac cycle or alternatively mature into a fibrous membrane obstructing the outflow tract.
The AVP III further expands the AGA family of occlusion devices designed to embolize, or close, blood vessels and blood vessel malformations in the peripheral vasculature.
Thrombi are caused by the inflammation of the vessel wall, and often adhered to wall having less tendency to embolize.

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