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varicosity
[ var-i-kos-i-tee ]
varicosity
/ ËŒ±¹Ã¦°ùɪˈ°ìÉ’²õɪ³Ùɪ /
noun
- the state, condition, or quality of being varicose
- an abnormally distended vein
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of varicosity1
Example Sentences
Waitressing is also something I’d like to avoid, because I remember it leaving me bone-tired when I was eighteen, and I’m decades of varicosities and back pain beyond that now.
Anything that increases pressure within the veins combines with the existing vein problem to cause pooling of blood and bulging of the vein walls to form what are called varicosities, he said.
Aëtius' treatment of the subject of varicosities is quite complete in its suggestions.
Morbid Anatomy.—In the lower extremity the varicosity most commonly affects the vessels of the great saphena system; less frequently those of the small saphena system.
He describes the enlargement of the veins that follows, the actual varicosities, and the dusky or livid redness of the parts which seem to be soft, but are really very hard.
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