aneurysmal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For the study, researchers looked at 4,879 people who had ruptured brain aneurysms, called aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
He has a “potentially aneurysmal dilation of my aortic root” that may kill him, if a possible brain tumor does not end him first.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2014
Pulsation in veins may be due also to an aneurysmal dilatation, or to direct connection with an artery.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
This is carried out on the same lines as for aneurysmal varix, and at the same time incising the sac, turning out the clots, and ligating any branches which open into the sac.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Pyogenic.—Non-suppurative inflammation of the coats of an artery may so soften the wall of the vessel as to lead to aneurysmal dilatation.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
