Word: atheroma
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...Wichita, Kans., laborer could not climb stairs or walk more than a few steps without feeling an exasperating pain in his legs. He did not know it but the arteries leading to his legs were clogged with a fatty cholesterol-like substance-what physicians call an atheroma. But that was the least of his troubles. The deposits were also forming in the neck arteries that feed the brain. If nothing were done, Herman Key was headed for a stroke...
...extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
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