Plural of empema; items that have been inserted or placed into something else.
From Greek empemein (to send in) + -ata (plural). A technical term used in medicine and anatomy for things embedded or inserted into tissues.
This is ultra-specialized medical jargon from the era when doctors had to describe foreign objects lodged in bodies before X-rays existed. Reading old medical texts is like learning an entirely different language.
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