Term: air embolism: obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving
Candidate hypernym: embolism: occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle) → 1
Candidate hypernym: voting system: a legal system for making democratic choices → 0
Candidate hypernym: red spruce: medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood → 0
Candidate hypernym: grinding: material resulting from the process of grinding → 0
Candidate hypernym: cowpea: fruit or seed of the cowpea plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: hardness: the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: council on environmental policy: the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment → 0
Candidate hypernym: washout: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) → 0
Candidate hypernym: quantum: (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory) → 0
Candidate hypernym: great auk: large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts; extinct → 0
Candidate hypernym: purple apricot: small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit → 0