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saccular aneurysm

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n.

A saclike bulging on one side of an artery.

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Words nearby saccular aneurysm

Saccidananda, sacciform, Sacco, Sacco and Vanzetti, saccular, saccular aneurysm, saccular gland, saccular nerve, sacculate, sacculation, saccule

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Example sentences from the Web for saccular aneurysm

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