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Varicose   Listen
adjective
Varicose  adj.  
1.
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.
2.
(Med.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; said of elastic stockings, bandages, and the like.





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"Varicose" Quotes from Famous Books



... her beefsteaks, red, raw, bleeding! She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins. A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music! Twenty years of it, regret them not. With thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never—do. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


Words linked to "Varicose" :   unhealthy, varicose vein


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