AAA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AAA mean? 

• AAA (noun)
  The noun AAA has 1 sense:

1. an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension

  Familiarity information: AAA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AAA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

AAA; abdominal aortic aneurysm

Hypernyms ("AAA" is a kind of...):

aortic aneurysm (an aneurysm of the aorta)

 Context examples 

Each of the ATPases, PSMC1-6, contains an AAA (ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities) domain.

(PA700 Regulatory Module, NCI Thesaurus)

Documented abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair or stent; 5.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, AAA, TAA

(Aortic Aneurysm, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

For a light source, they used a compact blue laser diode that was powered by 3 AAA batteries.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)