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adj. - Relating to or affected by a localized abnormal dilatation of a blood vessel (as an artery) filled with fluid or clotted blood, usually forming a pulsating tumor, and resulting from disease of the vessel wall

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