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Aneurism   /ˈænjʊrˌɪzəm/  /ˈænjʊrˌɪzm/   Listen
Aneurism

noun
1.
A cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall.  Synonym: aneurysm.



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"Aneurism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Joash T., attended only one of my lectures. In a day or two the symptoms of eruption were most encouraging. She has already quarrelled with all her family,—accusing her father of bigamy, her uncle Benoni of polytheism, her brother Zeno C. of aneurism, and her sister Eudoxy Trithemia of the variation of the magnetic needle. If ever hopes of seeing a perfect case of Primitive Christian were well-founded, I think we may entertain ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... father—old friends—earnestly desire that he should marry. He travels to her home, is enthusiastically greeted, and finds her even more bewitching than her wraith or whatever it is to be called. But she is evidently in bad health, and dies the same night of aneurism. Not guested in the house, but trysted in the morning, he goes there, and seeing preparations in the street for a funeral, asks of some one, being only half alarmed, "Qui est mort?" The answer is, ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... commonly on the left Side, above the cartilago ensiformis. Some Patients had only one, others two, and some three such Tumours. The first of them I saw was on the left Side, which, on being felt, gave exactly the same Sensation as when the Cartilages of the Sternum are begun to be raised by an Aneurism of the Aorta; only no Pulsation was to be perceived; and most of them ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro



Words linked to "Aneurism" :   cardiovascular disease, intracranial aneurysm, aneurismal, aortic aneurysm, ventricular aneurysm, cerebral aneurysm



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