Crossword-Solution: ATHEROMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atheroma | n. | An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. |
| Atheroma | n. | A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ATHEROMA (5)
Zillner attributed this circumstance to the small size of the wound, atheroma and degeneration of the aorta and slight retraction of the inner coat, together with a possible plugging of the pericardial opening.
While a real atheroma generally causes a reduction in diastolic blood pressure, or at least but slight increase, he has found in syphilitic cases with arteriosclerosis a high diastolic pressure.
Arteriosclerosis frequently reaches a stage when the blood pressure is low, and with atheroma of the arteries of the arms a true blood pressure is difficult to obtain.
PATHOLOGY The pathology of arteriosclerosis is a thickening and diminishing elasticity of the arteries, beginning with the inner coat and gradually spreading and involving all the coats, the larger arteries often developing calcareous deposits or thickened cartilaginous plates--an atheroma.
Syphilis plays an important part in the production of aneurysm, probably by predisposing the patient to arterio-sclerosis and atheroma, and inducing an increase in the vascular tension in the peripheral vessels, from loss of elasticity of the vessel wall and narrowing of the lumen as a result of syphilitic arteritis.