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Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

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  1. n. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
  2. n. A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought 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.
  3. n. an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
  4. 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. 2. (Med.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought 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.
  5. A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, beingbrought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently ofa clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule offat, or a microscopic organism.
  6. n. an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood