Varicose
['værɪkəʊs;-kəs;-z] or ['værɪ,kos]
解释:
(a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.
(a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.
希勒尔录入
解释:
adj. permanently dilated or enlarged as a vein the actual dilatation being called a varix—most often in the sub-mucous veins of the rectum (constituting h鎚orrhoids or piles) in the spermatic veins (giving rise to varicocele) and in the veins of the lower extremities—also Var′icous.—adjs. Var′icāted marked by varicose formations (said of shells); Var′icosed.—n. Varicos′ity state of being varicose.—Varicose veins a condition in which the superficial veins usually of the leg are swollen for no apparent physiological reason.
哈恩编辑