When a blood clot forms and stays where it forms, itâs called a thrombus. A thrombus that breaks loose or travels from where it formed and goes to another location in the body is called an embolus. Sometimes a piece of plaque, small pieces of tumor, fat globules, air or amniotic fluid can act like an embolus â breaking loose and traveling somewhere to block off blood flow.
1. About that 'disease' definition ... Since next week is the Global Issue of Advertising Age, first a word about Bing's supposed connotations outside the English-speaking world. Maybe you've seen the endlessly tweeted Twitter meme, Bing means disease in Chinese, which usually points to posts at either TechCrunch or the Brand Infection blog, both of which included an image of a Learn Chinese fortune-cookie slip that translates bing as disease.
Bing Maps Website Status History. The above graph displays service status activity for Maps.bing.com over the last 10 automatic checks. The blue bar displays the response time, which is better when smaller. If no bar is displayed for a specific time it means that the service was down and the site was offline. Service Status History. * Times displayed are PT, Pacific Time (UTC/GMT 0) | Current server time is 18:52. We have tried pinging Bing Maps website using our server and the website returned the above results.