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Varicosis

Definition: Varicosis

Varicosis

Noun

1. Pathological condition of being varicose or having varicose veins.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Varicosis \Var`i*cos"is\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Varix, and -osis.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Varicosis

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Varicosis

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

varicosis

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Varicosis

Language Translations for "varicosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

×"ליות. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aricosisvay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

varis (devisee, heir, heiress, heritor, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, successor, survivor, varicose vein, varicosity, varix). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Varicosis"

Words rhyming with "varicosis" (pronounced 'Var`i*cos"is'): Apodixis, Brewis, Cadis, Calisthenis, Camis, Clevis, Crevis, Dais, Deis, Elaeis, Endeixis, Epiplexis, Epistaxis, Epizeuxis, Heteronereis, Homotaxis, Interaxis, Keratonyxis, Nais, Neuraxis, Parasynaxis, Parataxis, Praxis, Procatarxis, Prophylaxis, Ptyxis, Rhizotaxis, Semiaxis, Synaxis, Syntaxis, Tamis, Thermotaxis, Thigmotaxis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Varicosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-o-r-s-s-v"

-2 letters: ovisacs, saviors, virosis.

-3 letters: across, ariosi, avisos, crasis, crisis, crissa, ovisac, savior, savors, scoria, vicars, visors.

-4 letters: arsis, arvos, aviso, coirs, coria, crass, cross, oasis, orcas, ossia, saris, saros, savor, scars, soars, soras, vairs, vicar, visas, visor.

-5 letters: airs, arco, arcs, arvo, asci, avos, cars, ciao, coir, cors, coss, cris, iris, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, ossa, rias, rocs, sacs, sari, scar, sics, sirs, soar, sora, sori, sris, vacs, vair, vars, visa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-o-r-s-s-v"
 

+3 letters: varicosities.

 

+4 letters: eviscerations, vicariousness.

 

+5 letters: anticorrosives, avariciousness, clavichordists, comparativists, corporativisms, overclassified, overclassifies, picornaviruses, provincialisms, provincialists, versifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Varicosis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 72 69 63 6F 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    .-.    ..    -.-.    ---    ...    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0072 0069 0063 006F 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

566784756981857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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