Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a localized dilatation of an artery, due to the pressure of the blood acting on a part weakened by accident or disease.
- noun In thermometry, an enlargement of the capillary tube of the thermometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
aneurysm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall
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Examples
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Or this line, after Wolowitz invited his date over for Shabbat dinner: “A Catholic girl like you wearing a big cross like that might just give my mother the big brain aneurism I’ve been hoping for.”
'Big Bang Theory': WHEEEAATONNNN! (Also, Wolowitz kinda gets a girlfriend) | EW.com 2009
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Go back to the freerepublic so you don’t have to think anymore – it might give you a brain aneurism since you aren’t used to using that organ.
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My mother-in-law died a few years back from a brain aneurism.
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They would have told me it was my fault because it was a inherent flaw (or whatever the terminology is) – the cancer started before we got insurance, or the aneurism was there waiting to happen, etc. etc.
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Rock star Neil Young is hospitalized in New York for treatment of what his agent calls a dangerous brain aneurism, which is a bulge in a blood vessel.
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For either femoral or popliteal arterio-venous aneurisms ligature of the artery above and below the aneurism is the best and safest treatment.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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The patient upon whom he performed his now celebrated operation was afflicted with a popliteal aneurism -- that is, the aneurism was located on the large popliteal artery just behind the knee-joint.
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As for 'aneurism' [sic] you were probably conflating it with Aneurin Bevan, one of your heroes no doubt (as you're almost a Welshman)?
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As for 'aneurism' [sic] you were probably conflating it with Aneurin Bevan, one of your heroes no doubt (as you're almost a Welshman)?
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There is one form of aneurism which is not infrequently overlooked, affecting the anterior mesenteric artery, primarily induced by a worm -- _Strongylus vulgaris_.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
hernesheir commented on the word aneurism
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "Is any further amount necessary? --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 20, 2013