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What is the thickening of the inner wall of an artery called?
Arteriosclerosis is the medical term meaning progressive thickening of the inner walls of arteries.
Is asteriosclosis contagious?
There is no such medical condition called asteriosclosis. Perhaps you mean arteriosclerosis, which is a thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries. Arteriosclerosis is not contagious.
What is adcrustation?
thickening present on d walls on d outer suface...........
What health danger results from thickening of artery walls?
restriction of the blood flow
What health danger results from thickening of the artery walls?
restriction of the blood flow
What is Arteriosclerosis definition?
The thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, occurring typically in old age.
High-fat diets can cause atherosclerosis a disease characterized by?
Thickening and hardening of the artery walls.
How does hyaline thicken?
Hyaline arteriolosclerosis is caused by a leaky endothelium causes plasma components to deposit in arteriolar walls. This leads to hyaline thickening of the walls and luminal narrowing.
What exercises will firm and tone your chest?
walls uparereally really good to mainteing your chest firm
What does nodular thickening of the adrenal glands mean?
Nodular thickening of the adrenal gland means that cancer could be present. It would normally be treated by surgical removal of cancerous tumors.
What does thickening of the bladder mean?
The wall of the urinary bladder should not be > 3 mm thick when distended and not > 5 mm thick when decompressed. The thickened wall could be due to the edema (swelling) of the wall which can happen due to the inflammation(cystitis) or the thickening could be due to the deposition of urinary sediments on the walls of the bladder. These are the 2 commonest causes. Bladder cancer is another cause. Generally if you are diagnosed with thickening of the bladder you will be sent to a urologist and have a cystoscopy performed.
What is a surgical incision into the chest walls to open the pleural cavity?
Thoracotomy
