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    The first is an embolism.†  (source)
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    Fortunately he had a belt wrapped tightly around his upper arm cutting his circulation, or he would have been dead from an embolism.†  (source)
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    He died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967, at the age of fifty-five.†  (source)
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    Eight weeks ago I was released from the hospital after suffering a pulmonary embolism.†  (source)
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    At first, they assumed she'd had an embolism of some sort, but they could find no evidence of it.†  (source)
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    For did not Auschwitz effectively block the flow of that titanic love, like some fatal embolism in the bloodstream of mankind?†  (source)
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    With the day's symptoms behind him, he'll warrant a 'natural causes' with a 'possible air embolism,' 'congestive lung failure,' or some damn thing behind it.†  (source)
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    His mother had died first, quite unexpectedly, while awaiting the birth of a second child, of an arterial blockage caused by phlebitis, an embolism, Dr. Heidekind had called it, triggering instantaneous cardiac paralysis—she had been sitting up in bed, laughing, and it looked as if she simply toppled over in a fit of laughter, whereas in fact she did it because she was dead.†  (source)
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    On the other hand, it could have been an embolism, because your blood clots much more easily when you are lying down for a long time, like when you are in hospital.†  (source)
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    A pulmonary embolism can take your life in an instant.†  (source)
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    Maybe there was an air embolism ...†  (source)
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    I think it is much more civilized to knock someone of your own gender on their ass than it is to stand on a street corner cussing yourself into an embolism, like they do in New York.†  (source)
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    It was a retrograde embolism.†
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