Word: aneurismic
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He cut a hole through the girl's ribs and stuck an aspirating needle into the "blister." No fluid oozed through the needle's lumen. The professor poked again. Unexpectedly bright red blood spurted from the hollow needle. The "blister" was really an aneurism, a bulging of the...
Admitted the professor last week, with a smile at himself: "I should never have dared to operate if I had known that the apparent blister was a cardiac aneurism. The diagnosis was wrong, the operation successful."