An embolus is a particle that moves about in our blood vessels, either in the veins or arteries. Most emboli are composed of clotted blood cells. A blood clot is called a thrombus and a moving blood clot is called a thromboembolus. As an embolus moves through the body's blood vessels, it's likely to come to a passage it can't fit through. It lodges there, backing up blood behind it. The cells that normally get their blood supply via this passage are starved of oxygen (ischemia) and die. This condition is called an embolism.
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Growth that is due to an increase in cell number results from an increased rate of mitotic cell division and is termed hyperplasia. Consequently, growth of a tissue or organ due to an increase in cell size is termed hypertrophy.
Its surface area will increase as well. Both volume and surface area of a cell will increase in size together though not at the same rate. The volume will increase faster than the surface area which makes the increase in size disproportionate to each other. It is this property which decreases the surface area to volume ratio as a cell increases in size.