When the Doctor says: Several medical term definitions.
Cerebral aneurysm - A localized
widening of a vessel within the brain.
Pachyderma - Abnormally thick skin.
Pericardium - The fibroserous membrane, consisting of mesothelium and submesothelial
connective tissue, covering the heart and beginning of the great
vessels. It is a closed sac having two layers: the visceral layer
(epicardium), immediately surrounding and applied to all the heart's
surfaces, and the outer parietal layer, forming the sac, composed of
strong fibrous tissue (fibrous pericardium [TA]) lined with a serous
membrane (serous pericardium [TA]). The phrenic nerves pass to the
diaphragm through the anterior pericardium and divide the pericardium
into antephrenic and retrophrenic portions; the pulmonary hilum divides
both of these portions into suprahilar, hilar, and infrahilar portions.
Tachycardia - Rapid beating of the heart, conventionally applied to rates over 90 beats per minute.
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