• 0 Posts
  • 132 Comments
Joined 8 months ago
cake
Cake day: August 12th, 2025

help-circle
  • Photonic@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldAmericans on vacation
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    27 days ago

    It doesn’t really help that Americans can’t ride a bicycle for shit. Tourists on bikes are a major hazard, but so are tourists on foot in any city with dedicated space for bicycles. They just cross it and walk on it without watching or even a single thought. They just assume it’s part of the pavement.












  • Thrombosis is generally used for the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) in a vein. However, not all thrombi are formed inside veins, as in the case of cardiac thrombi.

    Embolism is when a thrombus dislodges from its place and occludes a blood vessel somewhere else. If it originates from a vein it usually ends up in the lung vasculature – pulmonary embolism.

    Cardiac thrombo-embolism usually ends up in the brain – ischaemic stroke.

    A plaque is a build-up of atheroma (gunk) on the wall of an artery. If that happens in the carotid artery part of that plaque may dislodge and end up in the brain, causing ischaemic stroke.

    Ischaemic strokes are very rarely caused by embolism of thrombosis (thrombo-embolism from the veins), in which case it is often referred to as a paradoxical embolism.