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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 is a swollen blood vessel in your brain?
A swollen blood vessel in the brain is called a brain aneurysm. It is a potentially life-threatening condition where a weakened area in a blood vessel in the brain balloons and fills with blood. If an aneurysm ruptures, it can cause a hemorrhagic stroke.
What is an a aoto aneurysm?
An aneurysm is a localized, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall. They most commonly occur in areteries, especially the aorta. However, there is no such thing as an "auto" aneurysm.
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 it call when a big blood vessel that bust in your head?
Aneurysm
What Is a balloon-type bulging of a blood vessel.?
This is called an aneurysm.
What is the shape of a saccular aneurysm?
sacculated aneurysm or a saclike bulging on one side of an artery. Syn: ampullary aneurysm.
What is an enlargement or dilation of blood vessel wall commonly referred to as ballooning?
An enlargement or dilation of blood vessel wall is called an aneurysm
What is a fusiform aneurysm?
If all three layers of the vessel are affected and weakness develops along an extended area of the vessel, the weakened area will appear as a large, bulging region of blood vessel; this is called a fusiform aneurysm.
A bruit noted during auscultation in the area of a blood vessel is often a sign of?
Aneurysm
Which part of the brain is damaged by an aneurysm?
It depends on where the aneurysm is located. The aneurysm is a bulge in an arteriole blood vessel and will not cause damage itself unless it bursts.
What is the medical term meaning expansion of a blood vessel?
Dilation of a blood vessel is the term for physiologic widening of the vessel. Abnormal widening of the blood vessel through a weakening of the wall is known as aneurysm.Dilation of a blood vessel means widening of the vessel.
