aneurysm

/an-yuh-riz-uhm/US // ˈæn yəˌrɪz əm //UK // (ˈænjəˌrɪzəm) //

动脉瘤,血管瘤,脑瘤,动物动脉瘤

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pathology.
- : a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.

He returned to the organization as pitching coach in 2004 and 2005, but surgery for an aortic aneurysm ended his coaching career.
According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation the mortality rate is around 40 percent.
He discovered that his friend had just died from a brain aneurysm, and would never learn about the show.
The episode employs the tried and true conceit: a character has an aneurysm and begins hallucinating his life as a musical.
In the opening pages, village council member Barry Fairbrother drops dead from a brain aneurysm.
Coffee-drinking increases the risk of intracranial aneurysm by 10.6 percent.
An aneurysm needle threaded with silk is now passed around the vein from within outwards.
The rupture of a popliteal aneurysm, however, by compressing the vein and the articular branches, usually determines gangrene.
In other cases the blood escapes beyond the sheath and collects in the surrounding tissues, and a traumatic aneurysm results.
They usually heal rapidly, but, like punctured wounds, are liable to be followed by the formation of an aneurysm.
When the associated wound in the soft parts is valvular the hæmorrhage is arrested and an aneurysm may develop.