Converse of object

• dissect: The majority of people with an untreated dissecting aneurysm will die within a few weeks.

• leak: The on-table mortality is about 1 % compared with about 25 % for a leaking aneurysm.

• treat: The advisors suggested that at present very few centers in the United Kingdom are able to treat ruptured aneurysms by EVAR.

• suffer: The diagnosis was that I had suffered a cerebral aneurysm.

• repair: It is questionable whether any patient of 90 years or over should have a ruptured aortic aneurysm repaired.

• call: The most severe form causes weakness of the major blood vessels, which may swell ( the swelling is called an aneurysm ).

Adjective modifier

• aortic: Do you really think a mere ruptured aortic aneurysm is a good enough excuse to endanger Freedom?

• unruptured: The length of stay in hospital depends on whether the treatment by coiling has been for a ruptured or unruptured aneurysm.

• ruptured: Do you really think a mere ruptured aortic aneurysm is a good enough excuse to endanger Freedom?

• intracranial: SAH, mostly due to rupture of an intracranial aneurysm, accounts for a quarter of cerebrovascular deaths.

• abdominal: The risk of death from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is about 50 per cent, even during operation.

• infrarenal: CRD summary This review assessed elective endovascular aneurysm repair in the management of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Modifies a noun

• sac: A high velocity jet from the feeding artery enters the aneurysm sac during systole.

• rupture: The risk of aneurysm rupture is related to aortic diameter.

• repair: The mortality of elective aneurysm repair is about 5 % .

• diameter: Indications for surgery were aneurysm diameter of 5.5cm, expansion of 1cm per year or symptoms.

• clip: Do you have an aneurysm clip in your brain following a brain hemorrhage?

• surgery: Customized implants for aneurysm surgery are already approved for clinical use.

Noun used with modifier

• artery: Facial paralysis as the initial presentation of an internal carotid artery aneurysm.

• brain: My son, David Michael, died at age five from a ruptured brain aneurysm during surgery to repair a broken arm.