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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing aneurysms

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  • adjective relating to or affected by an aneurysm

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Examples

  • The condition, called aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, is often misdiagnosed, even though it is one of the most deadly neurological emergencies.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Fatality rates of one type of stroke -- aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, in which blood from a ruptured artery fills the space around the brain -- decreased 17% over the past three decades, even though the average age of the patients rose, according to a meta-analysis in The Lancet Neurology.

    Trauma Centers Are Trek for Millions of Children 2009

  • For anturysm in the chest or abdomen (which cannot be dealt with by operation) the treatment may be tried of injecting a pure solution of gelatine into the loose tissues of the armpit, so that the gelatine may find its way into the blood stream and increase the chance of curative coagulation in the distant aneurysmal sac.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • The coats of an artery, when diseased, may be torn by a severe strain, the blood escaping into the condensed tissues which thus form the aneurysmal sac.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • This laminar coagulation by constant additions gradually fills the aneurysmal cavity and the pulsation in the sac then ceases; contraction of the sac and its contents gradually takes place and the aneurysm is cured.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • Abbe shows a peculiar aneurysmal varix of the finger in a boy of nine.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • He quotes 17 similar cases which he has collected as occurring from 1749 to 1874, and notes that one of the patients lived seven weeks after the rupture of the aneurysmal sac.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • But for the local aneurysmal thrill at the point of the scar the condition would have been diagnosed as angioma, but as a bruit could be heard over the entire mass it was called an aneurysmal varix, because it was believed there was a connection between a rather large artery and a vein close to the mass.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • But for the local aneurysmal thrill at the point of the scar the condition would have been diagnosed as angioma, but as a bruit could be heard over the entire mass it was called an aneurysmal varix, because it was believed there was a connection between a

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Abbe 15.25 shows a peculiar aneurysmal varix of the finger in a boy of nine (Fig. 258).

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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