Converse of object

• cause: The only bubble some of them have to worry about is the embolism caused by IV drug abuse.

• call: This is called pulmonary embolism or PE and is a common cause of sudden, unexpected death.

• have: For example, if the person has an air embolism in the arteries carrying blood to the brain, it may cause seizures.

• suffer: However, no tests were performed to determine whether or not he had suffered a pulmonary embolism.

• prevent: These drugs will help keep the clot from increasing in size and help prevent pulmonary embolism.

• avoid: The backup diver was no doubt instructed not to buddy breathe to avoid an embolism.

Converse of subject

• complicate: Very rarely, severe OHSS may be complicated by pulmonary embolism, ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction.

Adjective modifier

• pulmonary: You may also have your lungs scanned to check for a pulmonary embolism.

• amniotic: There were five deaths due to amniotic fluid embolism ( where the fluid enters the mother's circulation ), fewer than previous reports.

• paradoxical: Even if paradoxical embolism was the cause of the initial event, as patients age strokes may recur for other reasons.

• arterial: This results in an arterial embolism, hence the term paradoxical embolism.

• fatal: Seasonal variation in fatal pulmonary embolism has been well documented by at least 23 reports comprising nearly 11 000 cases.

• cerebral: Potential source of cerebral embolism in migraine with aura: a transcranial Doppler study.

Modifies a noun

• stocking: After being kitted out with gorgeous hospital gowns and anti embolism stockings we sat around for a few hours just waiting.

Noun used with modifier

• gas: One risk specifically associated with keyhole surgery is gas embolism.

• air: In the bends, the air embolism is a bubble of nitrogen.

• blood-clot: Anticoagulant drugs are commonly used to prevent problems such as strokes from blood-clot embolism.

Preposition: in

• patient: Spiral computed tomography for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in critically ill surgical patients: a comparison with pulmonary angiography.

• artery: An embolism in an artery in the brain causes the cells fed by that artery to die - a form of stroke.