Sentences with phrase «spot on a blood vessel»
Aneurysm: What it is: A weak spot on a blood vessel in your brain that balloons out and fills with blood.
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When the embryo implants in the uterus, it can intrude on the tiny blood vessels in the spot that it attaches to.
One explanation for that, says Iacobuzio - Donahue, is that «Distant metastases have to travel long distances along the «highways» of the blood vessels, land in a good spot and colonize, while local metastases just pinch off the primary tumor and go a short distance on «familiar side roads,» so they are usually more similar to the primary tumor.»
The once - yearly exam can help eye doctors spot abnormal peeper problems, like a broken blood vessel or tumor that you're less likely to detect on your own.
Seamen everywhere feared this disease which started with lethargy and lacklustre energy, progressed to bleeding gums, weak joints and strange spots on the skin, and finally ended with death as the blood vessels collapsed and haemorrhaged.
Conversly, the «wet» form of macular degeneration is characterized by the growth of abnormal blood vessels from the choroid underneath the macula which then go on to create «blind spots» in a patient's field of vision.