The suffix dosis or osis, from ancient Greek, simply means an abnormal or diseased state of the word to which it is attached, as in lordosis, scoliosis and kyphosisâ¦ which describe abnormal curvatures of the spine, neurosis an early generic term for certain mental illnesses and endometriosis in which uterine tissue grows elsewhere in ...
1 If the clot travels to the lungs and blocks blood flow, the condition is called pulmonary embolism. 2  Peripheral artery disease (PAD): A narrowing of the peripheral arteries, most commonly in the arteries of the pelvis and legs. 3  PAD is similar to coronary artery disease (CAD) and carotid artery disease. If the clot travels to the lungs and blocks blood flow, the condition is called pulmonary embolism. 2  Peripheral artery disease (PAD): A narrowing of the peripheral arteries, most commonly in the arteries of the pelvis and legs. 3  PAD is similar to coronary artery disease (CAD) and carotid artery disease.
Those symptoms suggest a superficial clot (=superficial thrombophlebitis). The symptoms of a chronic/old DVT â a condition also called âpostthrombotic syndromeâ â will be explained in a separate blog entry. PE (Pulmonary Embolism) A PE is a blood clot in the blood vessels in the lung (images 1-3). The terminology can be confusing and misleading: Arteries are defined as blood vessels that lead away from the heart, veins as vessels that lead blood back to the heart. DVTs occur in veins.