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Aortic dissection (health) and burnet (medicine)


Aortic dissection (health)


A progressive tear in the aorta. The inner lining (intima) of the aorta tears and blood surges through the tear, creating a new false channel and separating (dissecting) the middle layer (media) from the outer layer of the aorta.





burnet (medicine)


burnet
<botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or Garden, burnet.

<zoology> Burnet moth, in England, a handsome moth (Zygaena filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Burnet saxifrage.

<botany> See Saxifrage. Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.

Origin: OE. Burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. Being named from its colour), fr. F. Brunet, dim. Of brun brown; cf. OF. Brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette.

Source: Websters Dictionary