Blockage

Definitions

1. The state or condition of being blocked.
   countable, uncountable
2. The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
   countable
3. Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
   countable, uncountable
4. Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism.
   countable, uncountable
5. Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”).
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Only when one has seen a Control⟳ Office at first-hand does one realise⟳ the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work⟳ that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete⟳ blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.”

“There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.”

“Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.”

“In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove⟳ a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.”

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