takayasu's arteritis

1. 1.

   disorder characterized by the absence of a pulse in both arms and in the carotid arteries

   Synonymspulseless disease

   Broaderarteritis

Questions about takayasu's arteritis

What does takayasu's arteritis mean?

takayasu's arteritis means "disorder characterized by the absence of a pulse in both arms and in the carotid arteries".

What is another word for takayasu's arteritis?

Close synonyms include pulseless disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is takayasu's arteritis a common word?

takayasu's arteritis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.