pilojection

pilojection definition - medical

pi·lo·jec·tion (pīˌlə-jĕkˈshən)

noun
The process of shooting a stiff mammalian hair into a saccular aneurysm in the brain to produce thrombosis, used in treating the aneurysm.

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