Arterial embolism. Peripheral embolism redirects here. See also Peripheral vascular disease. Arterial embolism is a sudden interruption of blood flow to an organ or body part due to an embolus adhering to the wall of an artery blocking the flow of blood, the major type of embolus being a blood clot (thromboembolism).
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: There are many types of virus that can cause a cold, so no cold is identical to another. In addition, our ability to fight a cold varies from person to person and time to time. So colds can last for anything between a couple of days to well over a week of sore throat, fever, blocked nose and other miserable symptoms. But as a rough guide, colds have usually run the worst of their course within a week, and you should certainly be well on the way to recovery by ten days.
There are nearly 62 million cases of the common cold annually in the US. 1  52.2 million of these cases affect Americans under age 17. 2  There are nearly 22 million school-loss days annually due to the common cold. 3  There are approximately 45 million bed days annually associated with the common cold.