What's the difference between variciform and varix?
Variciform
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a varix.
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Varix
Definition:
(n.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.
(n.) One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors suggest that pedal varix may be a more common occurrence than previously documented.
(2) Thrombosed varix of venous origin may be difficult to diagnose.
(3) A varix of the iris as a primary vascular lesion without evidence of reactive vascular proliferation secondary to obstructed outflow of a systemic vascular lesion occurred.
(4) Two own cases showed particulars in so far as one patient had an internal fistula between a varix in the base of the upper lobe of the lung and another varix in the apex of the lower lobe.
(5) The spermatic artery was identified and preserved in all but 1 varix ligation.
(6) The cause of the compression was found to be a giant venous varix formed by the dilatation of the outflow vein from a dural arteriovenous fistula located in the superior petrosal sinus.
(7) An orbital varix is a pathological enlargement of the venous channels within the orbit.
(8) We describe five cases of dilation or varix of the umbilical portion of the left portal vein appearing as a fetal intra-abdominal cyst.
(9) 132 varix ligations were performed during 44 separate EVL sessions.
(10) Nine gastric ulcers, four duodenal ulcers, one hemorrhagic gastritis, one gastric varix and three Mallory-Weiss tears were successfully electrocoagulated.
(11) The cause was proven to be a primary orbital varix.
(12) He was diagnosed as having grade 3 + mitral regurgitation (MR) by the Sellers classification and pulmonary varix by cardiac catheterization.
(13) Frequency of haemorrhage in the control group also increased with varix size: haemorrhage occurred from small varices in 35% of patients, from medium varices in 53%, and from large varices in 83%.
(14) He was found to have a thrombosed sapheno-varix with no evidence of a femoral hernia.
(15) Based on the complex regional and systemic hemodynamic forces and local physical properties underlying formation and perpetuation of esophagogastric varices, we propose, as with climatologic events, that a relatively minor or remote physiologic adjustment may set into motion a sequence of destabilizing splanchnic blood flow kinetics that ultimately causes a varix to erupt.
(16) Simple ligature of the bleeding varix is the operation which offers the greatest possibility of survival.
(17) Systemic intravenous administration of posterior pituitary extract temporarily controlled the hemorrhage in 94 per cent of the patients, and the emergency portacaval shunt promptly and permanently controlled the varix bleeding in 96 per cent of the patients.
(18) A new small noninvasive pressure-sensitive capsule for the endoscopic measurement of esophageal varix pressure was evaluated and compared to an initial Yale-designed capsule to test the hypothesis that the diameter of the capsule measuring surface is a limiting factor for the accuracy and variability of capsule pressure measurements.
(19) A rare case of giant cerebral varix with venous angioma and intracerebral hemorrhage, surgically treated with good outcome, is reported.
(20) When a rounded soft tissue density mass is seen on noncontrast-enhanced CT either in or contiguous to the renal hilum, a renal vein varix must be excluded.