pulmonary embolism
MONDO:0005279Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names pulmonary embolism yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
The obstruction of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by an embolus, sometimes associated with infarction of the lung.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005279), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (1)
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: pulmonary embolism
- Also called
- embolism, pulmonarypulmonary embolism (disease)pulmonary embolus