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AVM

AVM is the initialism of arteriovenous malformation.

AVM is the initialism of avian vacuolar myelinopathy.

Meaning of arteriovenous malformation

Noun

arteriovenous malformation (plural arteriovenous malformations)

  1. A congenital disorder in which arteries are connected directly to veins rather than through capillaries that distribute oxygen and nutrients. These connections, often called a nidus, can be extremely fragile and prone to bleeding.
    Synonyms:
    Also known by the abbreviation AVM

Forms of AVM

pluralAVMs

Questions about AVM

What is AVM the initialism of?
AVM is the initialism of arteriovenous malformation.

Words near AVM in the dictionary

  1. AVL tree
  2. AVL trees
  3. Avlabari
  4. AVLB
  5. AVLBs
  6. AVM
  7. AVMs
  8. AVN
  9. AVNRT
  10. avo
  11. avobenzone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: AVM (page history and authors); arteriovenous malformation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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