blockage

CEFRB2

/ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/

noun

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noun
Something that stops a passage or flow.
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noun
Extra detail
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.

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At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
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:

In context

Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.

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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.
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133

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From block + -age.