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... took the papers and read them slowly. They were apparently straightforward enough. Aneurism of the ascending aorta was given as the cause of death; and the doctor frankly admitted that had he known the deceased to be suffering from that complaint he would not have permitted him to receive more than twenty-five ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... disturbance had been caused by his fall. In the spring of 1868, he accompanied a party of Ute Indians to Washington. He was then failing fast and consulted a number of leading physicians and surgeons. His disease was aneurism of the aorta which progressed fast. When his end was nigh, his wife suddenly died, leaving seven children, the youngest only a few weeks old. His affliction had a very depressing effect on Carson, who expired May ...

— The Life of Kit Carson • Edward S. Ellis

... greater difficulty in demonstrating the spirochaete, but small numbers have been found in the peripheral parts of gummata and in the thickened patches in syphilitic disease of the aorta. Noguchi and Moore have discovered the spirochaete in the brain in a number of cases of general paralysis of the insane. The spirochaete may persist in the body for a long time after infection; its presence has been demonstrated as long as sixteen years after the original acquisition ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

Words linked to "Aorta" : arterial blood vessel, descending aorta, aortic arch, aortal, thoracic aorta, ascending aorta