Engravings, intended to illustrate some of the diseases of arteries. Accompanied with explanations / [Joseph Hodgson].

  • Joseph Hodgson
Date:
1815
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Credit: Engravings, intended to illustrate some of the diseases of arteries. Accompanied with explanations / [Joseph Hodgson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lined with thick crusts of calcareous matter. The semilunar valves are separated from each other in consequence of the dilatation of that part of the vessel to which they are at¬ tached : they are thickened and shrivelled. The abrupt ter¬ mination of the disease in the arch of the aorta is very remarkable, and allows a just estimate to be formed of the extent of the dilatation. The arteria innominata, and the left carotid and subclavian arteries, arose from the upper part of the cyst.
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