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Definition: Varicose |
VaricoseAdjective1. Abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "varicose" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Varicose \Var"i*cose`\, adjective. [Latin expression varicosus, from varix, -icis, dilated vein; compare to varus bent, stretched, crooked.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The common ulcer in the lower third of the leg or near the ankle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Varicose |
| English words defined with "varicose": Cirsocele, Cirsoid, Cirsoid aneurism ♦ phlebectomy ♦ support hose, support stocking ♦ varicose vein, varicosis, varicosity, Varicous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "varicose": esophageal varicose vein ♦ Sclerosing Solutions, Sclerotherapy, Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate ♦ varicose ulcer. (references) |
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Health | The disease usually affects the liver, spleen, and pancreas, resulting in low blood-cell counts, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids. (references) | |
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| "Varicose" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Varicose" is used about 65 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "varicose": esophageal varicose vein ♦ varicose bandage ♦ varicose doctor ♦ varicose stockings ♦ varicose ulcer ♦ varicose vein ♦ Varicose Veins. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "varicose": non-varicose. | |
| 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 |
varicose vein | 1,287 |
varicose vein treatment | 183 |
varicose vein surgery | 71 |
varicose | 56 |
varicose vein atlanta | 23 |
varicose viens | 22 |
varicose vein removal | 21 |
varicose vains | 19 |
varicose vein cause | 18 |
varicose vein picture | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "varicose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me zgjerim venash, me variçe. (various references) | |
Arabic | توسع الأوردة (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разширен (distent, expanded, extended, splay), варикозен. (various references) | |
Czech | varikózní. (various references) | |
Danish | variceagtig tumor (varicose tumor), varikøst ulcus (varicose ulcer), varikøst symptomkompleks (varicose symptom complex), varikøst sår (varicose ulcer), varikøs nervefiber (varicose nerve fibre), varikøs vene (varicose vein), varicesklerosering (treatment by means of injections to correct varicose, varicosclerosation), varix (varicose vein, varix), angiomatosis varicosa osteoatrophicans (varicose osteo-atrophic angiomatosis), caput medusae (caput Medusae, varicose veins), cirsomphalus (caput Medusae, varicose veins), diathesis varicosa (varicose diathesis), oesophagusvaricer (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), primære varicer (primary varicose veins), aareknude (varicose vein, varix), ulcus cruris (leg varicose ulcer, ulcus cruris), scleroserende behandling af aareknuder (treatment by means of injections to correct varicose, varicosclerosation). (various references) | |
Dutch | varix (varicose vein, varix). (various references) | |
Farsi | متسع (Turgid), مبتلابه واریس , وریدگشادشده . (various references) | |
Finnish | varices oesophagi (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), ulcus cruris (leg varicose ulcer), suonikohju (primary varicose veins, varicose vein), säärihaava (leg varicose ulcer), ruokatorven suonikohjut (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), ruokatorven laskimonlaajentumat (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix). (various references) | |
French | varices (varicose veins), varice oesophagienne (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), varice essentielle (primary varicose veins), varice (varicose vein, varicosity, varix), ulcère variqueux (varicose ulcer), ulcère de jambe (leg varicose ulcer), tumeur variqueuse (varicose tumor), traitement sclérosant des varices (treatment by means of injections to correct varicose, varicosclerosation), tete de Méduse (varicose veins), syndrome variqueux (varicose symptom complex), hémangiomatose brachiale ostéolytique (varicose osteo-atrophic angiomatosis), eczéma variqueux (varicose eczema), diathèse variqueuse (varicose diathesis), coaguler les vaisseaux sanguins variqueux (to seal off varicose blood vessels). (various references) | |
German | varikös, Krampfader (varicose vein, varicosity, varix). (various references) | |
Greek | κιρσώδησ, εξωγκόμενοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszeres. (various references) | |
Italian | varicoso. (various references) | |
Manx | attit (bulging, distended, enlarged, swollen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aricosevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | varicoso, com varizes. (various references) | |
Russian | варикозный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proširenih vena, nenormalno uvećan. (various references) | |
Spanish | varicoso. (various references) | |
Swedish | åderbråck (varicose vein, varix). (various references) | |
Turkish | varisli. (various references) | |
Ukranian | варикозний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ulcus cruris, varices oesophagi, varicosus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "varicose": varicosed. (additional references) | |
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"Varicose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avgikos, Vareyoc, varicosa, vericose, Vernikos, verrucas, verrucosus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: ovaries, scoriae, varices, viscera, voicers. | |
-2 letters: aivers, ariose, caries, carves, cavers, cavies, cerias, coarse, corves, cosier, covers, craves, ericas, ovisac, savior, scoria, scrive, varies, vesica, vicars, vireos, voicer, voices. | |
-3 letters: acres, aiver, areic, arise, arose, arvos, avers, aviso, cares, carse, carve, caver, caves, cavie, ceria, ceros, cires, coirs, cores, coria, corse, cosie, cover, coves, crave, cries, erica, escar, oaves, ocrea, orcas, osier, overs, races, raise, raves, rices, rives, roves, saice, saver, savor, scare, score, serac, serai, servo, siver, soave, vairs, verso, vicar, vices, viers, vireo, vires, visor, voces, voice. | |
-4 letters: aces, acre, aero, airs, arco, arcs, ares, arse, arvo, asci, aver, aves, avos, care, cars, case, cave, cero, ciao, cire, coir, core, cors, cove, cris, ears, eras, eros, ices, ires, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, ores, osar, over, race, rase, rave, recs, reis, revs, rias, rice, rise, rive, rocs, roes, rose, rove, sari, save, scar, sear, sera, sice, sire, soar, sora, sore, sori, vacs, vair, vars, vase, vera, vice, vier, vies, visa, vise, voes. | |
-5 letters: ace, air, ais, arc, are, ars, ave, avo, car, cis, cor, cos, ear, era, ers, ice, ire, oar, oca, oes, ora, orc, ore, ors, ose, ova, ras, rec, rei, res, rev, ria, roc, roe, sac, sae, sea, sec, sei, ser, sic, sir, sri, vac, var, vas, via, vie, vis, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: corrasive, varicosed, veracious, veronicas. | |
+2 letters: carnivores, microwaves, overclaims, tovariches, vocalizers, voracities. | |
+3 letters: cofavorites, contrastive, covariances, overactions, overcasting, oversaucing, recitativos, revocations, vacationers, varicoceles, veraciously, vociferates, vorticellas. | |
+4 letters: comparatives, consecrative, conservation, conservatism, conservative, conservatize, contrivances, conversation, conversional, cooperatives, correlatives, countervails, deactivators, discoverable, equivocators, evisceration, inobservance, overachieves, overcastings, overcautions, overcautious, overclassify, overissuance, provocatives, servicewoman, slavocracies, varicosities, vocabularies, vociferators. | |
+5 letters: anticorrosive, behavioristic, cavernicolous, clairvoyances, coacervations, commiserative, conservancies, conservations, conservatisms, conservatives, conservatized, conservatizes, conservatoire, contrastively, controversial, conversancies, conversations, conversazione, conversazioni, eviscerations, inobservances, ovariectomies, overachievers, overissuances, overmedicates, overreactions, overreliances, prevaricators, privatdocents, reactivations, valedictories, velociraptors, veraciousness, verifications, versification, vicariousness, viceroyalties, vociferations, voraciousness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 72 69 63 6F 73 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. .. -.-. --- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a r i c o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0072 0069 0063 006F 0073 0065 |
| 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)5667847569818571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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