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Yes. The word embolus is a Scrabble US word. The word embolus is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word embolus is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

EMBOLUS,

6-letter words (9 found)

BLOUSE,BLUMES,BOULES,MOBLES,MOUSLE,OBELUS,OLEUMS,UMBELS,UMBLES,

5-letter words (34 found)

BESOM,BLUES,BLUME,BOLES,BOLUS,BOULE,BOUSE,BULSE,EMBUS,EUSOL,LESBO,LOBES,LOBUS,LOMES,LOUSE,LUBES,MEBOS,MEOUS,MOBES,MOBLE,MOLES,MOUES,MOULS,MOUSE,MULES,MULSE,OLEUM,OMBUS,OUSEL,SEBUM,SOLUM,UMBEL,UMBLE,UMBOS,

4-letter words (47 found)

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3-letter words (45 found)

BEL,BES,BOS,BUM,BUS,ELM,ELS,EMO,EMS,EMU,LES,LEU,LOB,LOS,LOU,LUM,MEL,MES,MEU,MOB,MOE,MOL,MOS,MOU,MUS,OBE,OBS,OES,OLE,OLM,OMS,OSE,OUS,SEL,SOB,SOL,SOM,SOU,SUB,SUE,SUM,ULE,UME,UMS,USE,

2-letter words (17 found)

BE,BO,EL,EM,ES,LO,ME,MO,MU,OB,OE,OM,OS,OU,SO,UM,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 154 words from embolus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of embolus

embolus

Etymology

The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛmbələs/

Noun

embolus (plural emboli or emboluses)

  1. (pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
  2. (zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmbolus]

Noun

embolus m inan

  1. embolus (an obstruction causing an embolism)
    Synonym: vmetek

Declension

Further reading

  • embolus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • embolus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

Alternative forms

  • imbolus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈem.bo.lus/, [ˈɛmbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈem.bo.lus/, [ˈɛmbolus]

Noun

embolus m (genitive embolī); second declension

  1. piston
  2. (Medieval Latin) alley, back street
  3. (New Latin) anything oblong that can be thrusted into something, peg, plug, rod
    1. (New Latin) gunstick, ramrod
    2. (New Latin) any foreign body, especially a migrated thrombus, that travels through the blood vessels, such that it becomes lodged

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → Catalan: èmbol
  • → Czech: embolus
  • → English: embolus
  • → Spanish: émbolo

References

  • “embolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • embolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • embolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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