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.
What Are Bing Ads? A Bing Ads was formerly known as Microsoft adCenter and MSN adCenter before Microsoftâs search engine was renamed and rebranded to Bing in 2009. Bing Ads is to Bing what Google AdWords is to Google. It is the PPC (pay per click) advertising platform for advertisers to advertise within both the Bing and Yahoo! search engines. Even though Bing and Yahoo! arenât nearly as popular as King of Search Google, people are still actively searching on these sites which makes Bing Ads worth taking a look at for advertisers.