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varix
  1. (medicine) a varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein
  2. (zoology) In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In sclerotherapy a sclerosant solution is injected into the bleeding varix or the overlying submucosa.”
      “The outer lip of Falsilatirus forms a terminal varix that slightly ascends the spire, as in other Pisaniinae.”
      “The operation most in favour consists in ligation of the artery above and below the varix, the vein remaining untouched.”
varicosity
  1. An enlarged vessel or nerve, particularly a blood vessel.
  2. A varicose vein.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The instep is not usually where one finds a varicosity, but that was the source of her discomfort.”
      “They are treated with steroid ointment, elastic stockings and by eliminating the underlying varicosity that has occurred.”
      “I am able to sleep on the side, me knees are more flexible and varicosity are less visible.”
varicosis
  1. (medicine) The condition of being varicose or of having varicose veins
  2. Examples:
    1. “Primary varicosis with tendency to thrombosis, particularly when blood circulation is slow, e.g. after extended bed rest.”
      “Secondary varicosis as a consequence of vein disease, which leads to occlusion or local failure of the valves in the affected veins.”
      “The lower rate of vision and hearing problems, arrhythmias, hypertension, varicosis and musculoskeletal diseases in our study matches this hypothesis.”
varicosities
  1. plural of varicosity
  2. Examples:
    1. “Besides ulceration, lower leg edema can lead to tortuous varicosities, phlebitis, deep vein thrombosis, embolism, and infection, among others.”
      “The vesicles within the presynaptic axonal varicosities store the neurotransmitters that are synthesized there by special biochemical systems.”
      “Concomitantly or sequentially with the treatment of truncal insufficiency, residual varicosities can be treated by phlebectomy.”
varicoses
  1. plural of varicosis
varices
  1. plural of varix
  2. Examples:
    1. “This dominant hepatic fibrosis with minimal renal involvement leads to portal hypertension and varices.”
      “Patients with evidence of hypersplenism and those having gastric fundal varices were not included in the study.”
      “Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed nonbleeding esophageal varices and congestive gastropathy.”
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