a blood clot had occluded a major artery in his body
Recent Examples on the WebThe modest pressure occludes veins that drain the muscle, but does not occlude the artery that feeds it. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022 The series begins with these stereotypes, then works to reveal the humanity that the stereotypes occlude.New York Times, 13 May 2022 The key is using heavyweights of at least 60% of max to assault the muscle and occlude arterial blood flow. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022 Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude. Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 Only about 10 percent of infected people develop serious manifestations, such as fungal growths that occlude their lungs, and only about 1 percent develop the most dire complications: fungal invasion of their bones, joints, spine, and brain. Maryn Mckenna, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021 But the prying eyes of commercial banks looking to occlude bank accounts with incriminating evidence of crypto transactions scare traders more. Grace Akinosun, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2021 Feinstein extrapolated that statement to express a fear that Barrett, a textualist who once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, would allow her faith to occlude her legal judgment if a challenge to Roe should arise. Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020 In the first, a patient who from birth had one eye occluded — from a cataract, for example, or from rare eyelid problems — but then had that anatomical problem removed still ended up with one blind or nearly blind eye.Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Latin occludere, from ob- in the way + claudere to shut, close — more at close entry 1