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air embolism

vascular blockage by air bubbles
Class type of: embolism, barotrauma, decompression illness Q1367304

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
class of disease
Subclass of
embolism, barotrauma, decompression illness[2][3][4]
Afflicts
diver[5]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[6][7]
Different from
decompression sickness[9]
Health specialty
emergency medicine, diving medicine[10][11]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C50455[8]
P14541
WkzzS[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en air embolism en gas embolism en Embolism, Air ar انصمام هوائي da Luftemboli de Luftembolie el αεροεμβολή es embolia gaseosa es embolia gaseosa arterial fa آئروآمبليسم fr embolie gazeuse fr Embolie gazeuse he תסחיף אוויר it embolia gassosa arteriosa it Embolia gassosa ja 空気塞栓 nl luchtembolie pl Zator gazowy pl Zator powietrzny pt aeroembolismo
🔖 Identifiers · 24
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2006007525
OpenAlex ID
C2779806549
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Air embolism in the descending thoracic aorta after CT guided lung biopsy.jpg ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
42268
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
165049082
DiseasesDB
313
EMedicine ID
761367
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
92365
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/air-embolism
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
aero-embolisme
Freebase ID
/m/029lp4
ICD-10 ID
O88.0, T79.0
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ICD-9 ID
673.0, 999.1
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
air-embolism
MeSH descriptor ID
D004618
MeSH tree code
C14.907.355.350.254
Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID
10029908, 10001528
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2910004835
NHS Health A to Z ID
air-embolism
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007537663305171
Quora topic ID
Air-Embolism
SNOMED CT ID
271376002
UMLS CUI
C0013926
Yale LUX ID
concept/db1c1918-6e71-4005-81a4-60e7ac199cea

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 3
embolism, barotrauma, decompression illness
Health specialty 2
emergency medicine, diving medicine
Afflicts 1
diver
Different from 1
decompression sickness
Instance of 1
disease
← Different from 1
decompression sickness
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Summary

air embolism is a class of disease[1].

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disease emergency medicine

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Class ancestry

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  1. 5w ago · تامر · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)"
  2. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39873|batch #39873]]: P31 = "type of disease""
  3. 20w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → WkzzS
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → emergency medicine, diving medicine
    Afflicts → diver
    Instance of → class of disease
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007537663305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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