Term: thromboembolism: occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: float: the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: hotchpotch: a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: winged spindle tree: bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings; brilliant red in autumn; northeastern Asia to central China
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: principle of relativity: (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: dysentery: an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: american shrew mole: greyish-black shrew mole of the United States and Canada
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: ratafia: macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: vitiation: nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: bone oil: the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
Broader: affliction: a cause of great suffering and distress | Unrelated: family therapy: any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole