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Pulmonary embolus

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A blood clot that has passed into and occluded the lung's pulmonary artery.

An embolus causes an embolism.

In this case, the embolus, a clot or foreign material, has been carried through the blood into the pulmonary artery or one of its branches, plugging the vessel

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