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Definitions: VARICES |
VARICESNoun plural1. See Varix. Plural1. Of Varix |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Stretched veins such as those that form in the esophagus from cirrhosis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: VARICES |
| English words defined with "VARICES": Cirsotomy ♦ Scalaria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VARICES": Balloon Dilatation ♦ Esophageal and Gastric Varices, Esophageal Varices ♦ Hemostasis, Endoscopic ♦ Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical ♦ Sclerosing Solutions, Sclerotherapy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VARICES": Varix. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "VARICES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (varicose veins), Spanish (varicose veins). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cirrhosis of the liver is the most common cause of esophageal varices. (references) | |
The enlarged blood vessels, called varices, have thin walls and carry high pressure, and thus are more likely to burst. (references) | ||
Other causes of UGI bleeding, including gastric and esophageal varices, diffuse erosive gastritis, and Mallory-Weiss tears were necessarily excluded from consideration. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VARICES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.07% of the time. "VARICES" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.07% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "VARICES": Esophageal and Gastric Varices ♦ Esophageal Varices. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
varices | 168 |
esophageal varices | 51 |
esofagicas varices | 9 |
des traitement varices | 8 |
de esclerosante las tratamiento varices | 8 |
esophogeal varices | 5 |
drenaje en linfatico manual varices | 4 |
de tratamiento varices | 4 |
varices venas | 3 |
oesophageal varices | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VARICES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | разширени вени (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Danish | graviditetsvaricer (varices caused by pregnancy), esofagusvaricer (oesophageal varices), øsofagusvaricer (oesophageal varices). (various references) | |
Dutch | varices ontstaan tijdens de graviditeit (varices caused by pregnancy). (various references) | |
French | varices gravidiques (varices caused by pregnancy). (various references) | |
German | Kindsadern (varices caused by pregnancy), Ösophagusvarizen (oesophageal varices). (various references) | |
Greek | κιρσοί ιατρικήσ. (various references) | |
Italian | varici gravidiche (varices caused by pregnancy), varici dell'esofago (oesophageal varices), varice esofagea (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varices, oesophageal varix). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aricesvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | varizes esofágicas (oesophageal varices), varizes causadas pela gravidez (varices caused by pregnancy). (various references) | |
Spanish | varices gravídicas (varices caused by pregnancy), varices esofágicas (oesophageal varices), varices del esófago (oesophageal varices). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "VARICES": avarices. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: viscera. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: aivers, caries, carves, cavers, cavies, cerias, craves, ericas, scrive, varies, vesica, vicars. | |
-2 letters: acres, aiver, areic, arise, avers, cares, carse, carve, caver, caves, cavie, ceria, cires, crave, cries, erica, escar, races, raise, raves, rices, rives, saice, saver, scare, serac, serai, siver, vairs, vicar, vices, viers, vires. | |
-3 letters: aces, acre, airs, arcs, ares, arse, asci, aver, aves, care, cars, case, cave, cire, cris, ears, eras, ices, ires, race, rase, rave, recs, reis, revs, rias, rice, rise, rive, sari, save, scar, sear, sera, sice, sire, vacs, vair, vars, vase, vera, vice, vier, vies, visa, vise. | |
-4 letters: ace, air, ais, arc, are, ars, ave, car, cis, ear, era, ers, ice, ire, ras, rec, rei, res, rev, ria, sac, sae, sea, sec, sei, ser, sic, sir, sri, vac, var, vas, via, vie, vis. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: archives, avarices, caviares, cavilers, claviers, varicose, visceral. | |
+2 letters: achievers, calvaries, caressive, cavaliers, cavalries, cavillers, chivarees, chivaries, corrasive, curatives, mavericks, navicerts, privacies, variances, varicosed, veracious, veronicas, verticals, vesicular, vibrances, vicarages, vicarates. | |
+3 letters: ascriptive, aviatrices, cabdrivers, caregivers, carnivores, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, crevassing, echeverias, eviscerate, fricatives, grievances, incurvates, larvicides, microwaves, overclaims, revanchism, revanchist, revictuals, serviceman, silverback, survivance, tovariches, vagrancies, varicellas, veracities, verdancies, versicular, vibrancies, vicariates, victualers, viscerally, vocalizers, voracities. | |
+4 letters: abstractive, apperceives, architraves, avicultures, cadaverines, cantilevers, caregivings, caressively, cavalierism, clavierists, cofavorites, contrastive, covariances, distractive, divaricates, eviscerated, eviscerates, extractives, invariances, overactions, overcasting, oversaucing, reactivates, receivables, recitatives, recitativos, relevancies, revanchisms, revanchists, revocations, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, subcurative, subtractive, survivances, transceiver, vacationers, varicoceles, veraciously, verbalistic, vicariances, victuallers, vociferates, vorticellas, vulcanizers. | |
+5 letters: acriflavines, advertencies, affricatives, caravanserai, carminatives, cavalierisms, clavieristic, comparatives, consecrative, conservation, conservatism, conservative, conservatize, contrivances, conversation, conversional, cooperatives, correlatives, countervails, creativeness, creativities, czarevitches, deactivators, decemvirates, deliverances, discoverable, disseverance, equivocators, eviscerating, evisceration, hyperactives, incurvatures, inobservance, inveteracies, irrelevances, overachieves, overcastings, overcautions, overcautious, overclassify, overissuance, perspectival, prevaricates, provocatives, reactiveness, reactivities, recultivates, relativistic, revaccinates, revivalistic, servicewoman, slavocracies, subcuratives, surveillance, transceivers, varicosities, verticalness, vesicularity, vocabularies, vociferators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 52 49 43 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. .. -.-. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A R I C E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 0052 0049 0043 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56355243373953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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