In the finest capillaries permitting only a string of corpuscles, one behind the other but none abreast, to pass through in the normal state, dilatation may cause blockage by two or three becoming wedged in abreast and closing the lumen of the vessel by a sort of embolism.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller
As an unsuspected result of the operation upon her, an embolism had been wandering in her veins; it reached the brain, and she expired, to the great loss of the National Reformation Society.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
If large veins are injured, thrombosis may occur, and be followed by pulmonary embolism.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson