blockage
/ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/
Meaning
The state or condition of being blocked.
Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism.
The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”).
The state or condition of being blocked.
Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism.
The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”).
The state or condition of being blocked.
Examples
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.
Word Forms
blockages
Etymology
Etymology tree
English block
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English blockage
From block + -age.