AVM
Noun
Meaning
(medicine, pathology, countable) Initialism of arteriovenous malformation.
(pathology, orinthology) Initialism of avian vacuolar myelinopathy.
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Examples
After he collapsed, Patterson was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with AVM.
An AVM interferes with this process by forming a direct connection of the arteries and veins.
An AVM lacks the dampening effect of capillaries on the blood flow, which means that the AVM can get progressively larger over time as the amount of blood flowing through it increases, forcing the heart to work harder to keep up with the extra blood flow.
In addition to a vector-rendering engine, the Flash Player includes a virtual machine called the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) for scripting interactivity at run-time, with video, MP3-based audio, and bitmap graphics.
It could be recalled that AVM Obong was the Commander of the Presidential Air Fleet between 2013 and 2015, and allegedly enriched himself corruptly while serving in that capacity.
As the contrast agent flows through the AVM structure, a sequence of X-ray images are obtained.