MEANING
A localized enlargement of a blood vessel caused by weakness or alteration of its wall.
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- a vascular aneurysm
- an aneurysm sac
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The scan showed an aneurysm along the vessel.
She asked whether the aneurysm had changed since the earlier image.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular aneurysm; plural aneurysms. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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