sickness vs air embolism

air embolism vs sickness

sickness and air embolism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
air embolism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, air embolism is a hyponym of sickness; that is, air embolism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sickness:

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
air embolism: pain resulting from rapid change in pressure

Other hyponyms of sickness include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, collapse, prostration, aeroembolism, bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy, growth.

sickness (noun)	air embolism (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving
the state that precedes vomiting	pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and air embolism

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