Crossword-Solution: ENDARTERITIS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

With high blood pressure to the point of beginning endarteritis, a gradually increasing force of the apex beat occurs, the aortic closure is accentuated as just described, the pulse is slow, the tensity of the arteries depends on the stage of the disease, and when the disease is actually present, the palpable arteries do not collapse on pressure.

TREATMENT The treatment of a suspected coronary sclerosis is the same as that of general arteriosclerosis--primarily the elimination of anything which tends to cause high tension or to produce chronic endarteritis.

When either general or local arteriosclerosis is present, the treatment which should be inaugurated comprises anything which would tend to inhibit the endarteritis and the classification--necessary periods of rest, the interdiction of all physical effort or physical strain, and the regulation of the diet, digestion and elimination.

Sooner or later, in most instances of this disease, whether hypertension, chronic endarteritis or interstitial nephritis or any combination of these conditions is most in evidence, the heart will hypertrophy.

Another man of the first group, about middle age, and previously a very healthy, sober, hard-working fellow, has developed thrombosis of his middle cerebral artery as the result of a syphilitic endarteritis.