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Q: What is a swollen blood vessel in your brain?
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What is the term for when a vein pops open in your brain?

A swollen blood vessel is called an aneurysm. If a brain aneurysm ruptures, it can hemorrhage into the brain. Bleeding from a ruptured aneurysm is one form of stroke, or cerebrovascular accident (CVA).


A stroke is a rupture of a blood vessel in the?

A stroke is a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.


What is an anuerism?

A cerebral or brain aneurysm is a cerebrovascular disease in which weakness in the wall of veins causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel. The bursting of an aneurysm in blood vessel can cause brain death.


What is a blood vessel that rhymes the brain?

vein


What is the difference between a brain bleed and an aneurysm?

Hematoma is blood pooled outside the blood vessel, aneurysm is a bulging of a blood vessel.


What blood vessel breaks open if aneurysm is present?

An Aneurysm is usually a blood vessel in the brain, that balloons, then breaks.


What's Stroke?

Burst blood vessel in the brain


If you rupture a blood vessel can you die?

Yes. It depends on the blood vessel and where it is, but yes a rupture to a blood vessel can kill you. A blood vessel is more likely to "pop" or rupture if it has an aneurysm, which is a local weakness where the blood vessel has stretched from the pressure of the blood. This is more likely to result in death if it is in a large blood vessel or in a critical location, such as the aorta or a vessel in the brain.


A what usually invalves a rupture or a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain?

A stroke can be caused by bleeding on the brain.


Which of these conditions can be defined as an area of swollen brain tissue mixed with blood from broken blood vessels?

contusion


A stroke occurs in the?

Heart, neck, or brain. It can also be a blood vessel


Is it possible to cough a piece of your brain?

No, but you can burst a weak blood vessel.