Atheroma is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 320 anagrams from letters in atheroma (aaehmort).
1700-10; New Latin, Latin: a tumor filled with gruellike matter Greek athḗrōma, equivalent to athḗr(ē) gruel + -ōma -oma
It is a very common result of endocarditis extending into the aorta, which we find perhaps the most frequent seat of atheroma.
The average age was 53 years, and the aorta presented some degree of atheroma in half the cases.
Like the worm-aneurism itself, atheroma of the abdominal arteries arises from a circumscribed acute and subacute endo-arteritis.
atheroma in the vessels of the brain is a frequent cause of cerebral apoplexy.
atheroma is common after middle life and increases in frequency with age.
In the walls of the verminous aneurism one not unfrequently finds all the pathological changes exhibited by atheroma in man.
Such dilatations are usually due to chronic endarteritis and atheroma.
Chronic endarteritis is fruitful in the production of thrombus and atheroma.
Thus there appears to be more liability to atheroma in the gross corpulent diabetic even than in the gouty man.
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