Definitions for atheromas

atheromas ath·er·o·ma

Spelling: [ath-uh-roh-muh]
IPA: /ˌæθ əˈroʊ mə/

Atheromas is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 675 anagrams from letters in atheromas (aaehmorst).

Definitions for atheromas

noun

  1. a sebaceous cyst.
  2. a mass of yellowish fatty and cellular material that forms in and beneath the inner lining of the arterial walls.

Origin of atheromas

1700-10; New Latin, Latin: a tumor filled with gruellike matter Greek athḗrōma, equivalent to athḗr(ē) gruel + -ōma -oma

Examples for atheromas

Thus there appears to be more liability to atheroma in the gross corpulent diabetic even than in the gouty man.

Such dilatations are usually due to chronic endarteritis and atheroma.

Like the worm-aneurism itself, atheroma of the abdominal arteries arises from a circumscribed acute and subacute endo-arteritis.

In the walls of the verminous aneurism one not unfrequently finds all the pathological changes exhibited by atheroma in man.

It is a very common result of endocarditis extending into the aorta, which we find perhaps the most frequent seat of atheroma.

atheroma in the vessels of the brain is a frequent cause of cerebral apoplexy.

The average age was 53 years, and the aorta presented some degree of atheroma in half the cases.

Chronic endarteritis is fruitful in the production of thrombus and atheroma.

atheroma is common after middle life and increases in frequency with age.

Word Value for atheromas
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13

Words with friends

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