A month before, he had a blockage in his heart and needed open-heart surgery.
There, doctors discovered a blockage in his carotid artery, which caused the stroke.
Another potential cause of a blockage in the discussions was the future of Maria Eagle, the shadow defence secretary.
The mother of Louise Brown had been unable to conceive because of a blockage in her fallopian tubes.
It is also possible that one of the original bypassed arteries developed a blockage in a region beyond the bypass.
It took awhile to fix, but eventually they found a blockage in the cooling system and continued on their way.
On the procedure table, a cardiologist found a blockage in the left main artery to his heart — a "widow-maker," doctors call it — and stented it open.
I later learned that he had suffered a massive heart attack due to a blockage in his left main coronary artery.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, underwent surgery on Friday morning to remove a blockage in his left carotid artery, aides said.
Since peristalsis is physically imperceptible unless you have a blockage in your large intestine, how could anyone hold it as a highlight?
The government hopes to remove a blockage in the modification process with a bribe to holders of "second lien" mortgages, such as home-equity loans.
