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Hematoma vs Pseudoaneurysm - What's the difference?

hematoma | pseudoaneurysm |

As nouns the difference between pseudoaneurysm and hematoma

is that pseudoaneurysm is a so-called "false aneurysm", a hematoma that forms as the result of a leaking hole in an artery while hematoma is a swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of a broken blood vessel.

hematoma

English

Alternative forms

* haematoma *

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of a broken blood vessel.

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    * (wikipedia "hematoma") ----

    pseudoaneurysm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia pseudoaneurysm)
  • (medicine) A so-called "false aneurysm", a hematoma that forms as the result of a leaking hole in an artery.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 12, author=George Vecsey, title=Accepting the Costs of a Life in Football, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=One nurse aggressively stanched the arterial pseudoaneurysm with a copious number of four-inch gauze pads, but Williams’s ordeal is hardly over. }}