CEREBRAL ANEURYSM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral aneurysm mean? 

• CEREBRAL ANEURYSM (noun)
  The noun CEREBRAL ANEURYSM has 1 sense:

1. an aneurysm of the carotid artery

  Familiarity information: CEREBRAL ANEURYSM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL ANEURYSM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aneurysm of the carotid artery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cerebral aneurysm" is a kind of...):

aneurism; aneurysm (a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall)

 Context examples 

Monitoring the progress of cerebral aneurysms now requires repeated angiogram imaging using contrast materials that can have harmful side effects.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)

It may lead to numerous complications, such as pseudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm (ballooning blood vessel in the brain), they explain.

(Blocking A Sneeze, Man Ruptures Throat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)