- plural of varix.
varices
Americannoun
noun
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He had a tumour removed from his liver and varices had formed on his stomach wall - both a direct result of the hepatitis C he had been infected with.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
She now has cirrhosis of the liver and varices - enlarged blood vessels in the oesophagus that make swallowing hard.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
I have cancer and a brain tumour and multiple sclerosis and rupturing varices.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2018
Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Every variety of traumatic aneurism was met with, and most frequently of all, perhaps, aneurismal varices and varicose aneurisms.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
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