It's less likely but sometimes a plaque could also go downstream, kind of form a thromboembolism.

This actual clot that forms, that can restrict the blood vessel, this is a thrombus.

This is highly thrombogenic material. Thrombogenic, very fancy word.

It would be this thrombogenic material, the clots around it.

In the last video I called this a thrombosis but that's really not quite right, thrombosis is the formation of the clot that can restrict the blood flow, but when it breaks off, becomes an embolus, and lodges itself further off and restricts blood flow, this is called a thromboemoblism.

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So, thromboembolus is a more specific way of calling it an embolus, and once one of these things lodge themselves and block the blood flow, that's a thromboembolism.

Thrombosis is the process of a thrombus forming.

What we drew in the last video and this one as well these emboli that are also clotted, they are also thrombi and emboli at the same time, this would be called a thromboembolus.

Once things break off and become an embolus that's the general term for it and in particular, if it's broken off material that is due to a clot, it is a thromboembolus.

Hopefully I'm not confusing too much these medical terms confuse ME a lot but I want to make it very clear, thrombosis is formation of a blood clot inside of a blood vessel than can restrict the flow of blood.

You can also call it an embolism.

So thrombi are these blood clots that form, that can help to obstruct a blood vessel.

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So it would not be wrong to call it an embolus, but in particular if you know it is a thromboembolus, you know it is the clotted material from a released plaque that can go lodge itself.

But rather all of these different practices you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress or lower your blood pressure, unclog your arteries, even though it can do all those things.

And they go up to the cath lab and boom, boom, boom get rid of the clot.

Now, what I want to clarify is the actual terminology the last video was a little bit hand wavy with the terminology, and I want to go deeper here.

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Now it sudden is exposed to the blood flow. in particular to the clotting factor in the blood.

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The main tap is turned off.

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She was resuscitated, stabilized, whisked over to a CAT scan suite right next to the emergency room, because they were concerned about blood clots in the lung.

Now we saw on the video on myocardial infarctions or heart attacks that sometimes, one of these plaques might become unstable and they break off and then you have a complete blocking of a vessel, and we called this if it's an embolus... and remember that an embolus is something that is just floating around and eventually blocks a vessel, and if it was a due to a ruptured plaque that also had clotting factors around it when it was released, then we would call this a thromboembolism.

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Now any of these released pieces or chunks in any of these blood vessels, that can float around and eventually lodge themselves in and eventually block the blood flow, these are called emboli, or if I use it in the singular, one of these is an embolus.

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Two and a half weeks after the hemorrhage, the surgeons went in, and they removed a blood clot the size of a golf ball that was pushing on my language centers.

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And the CAT scan revealed no blood clots in the lung, but it showed bilateral, visible, palpable breast masses, breast tumors, that had metastasized widely all over the body.

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