brain aneurysm
Arterial vessel balloon
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain, caused by weakness in the vessel wall.
Most cause no symptoms unless they rupture, which triggers a life-threatening stroke requiring emergency treatment: She survived a ruptured brain aneurysm.
Small unruptured aneurysms are sometimes discovered incidentally during brain imaging.
- ruptureViolent tearing apart
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- arteryOxygen-rich blood conduit
- cerebral arteryBlood vessel supplying brain
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- vascular diseasesatherosclerosis, thrombosis, embolism, PAD, coronary artery disease
- neurologyneuron, neurons, synapse, synapses, axon
- Strokeischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, TIA, mini stroke, mini-stroke
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