(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(2) Venous valves do not play a role in pathogenesis of primary varicose veins.
(3) Fluorescent nerve fibers with axonal varicosities were distributed on the wall of the preretinal blood vessels in the fluorescence histochemical study.
(4) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(5) Results of the complex clinical and phlebographic examination of 106 patients with the varicose disease were studied.
(6) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
(7) The prevalence of varicose veins of the lower limbs and their risk factors were investigated in the group of 696 women working at a large department store.
(8) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(9) After a phlebitic occlusion of the right superficial femoral and external iliac veins he had been operated on twice for varicose veins.
(10) 96 patients were treated in two years by Ambulatory and Hemodynamic Treatment of Varicose Veins (CHIVA cure), representing 131 legs that underwent surgery.
(11) Axons of these small neurons probably have varicosities located on the CDC axons in the neuropil of the cerebral ganglion, indicating synaptic contacts.
(12) The diffuse junctions, spreading out extensively over the muscle fiber surface, were characterized by two types of varicose swellings (or terminal varicosities) of nerve endings.
(13) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(14) Random analysis of 5,000 additional epithelial cells in these sections showed no close associations to nerve elements with significant accumulations of neurosecretory vesicles (varicosities).
(15) Simultaneous measurements were made on 47 legs after phlebography (normal: 8; side-arm varicosities: 17; long-saphenous insufficiency: 15; postthrombotic syndrome: 7).
(16) Sites of chemical synaptic interaction between the sensory cells and L7 are located at varicosities along sensory cell processes that overlie the main axons of L7, since these structures have been shown ultrastructurally to contain active zones.
(17) The varicosities contain two types of vesicle: electron-lucent vesicles (mean diameter 50 nm) which are immunopositive for GABA and larger (80 nm) electron-dense vesicles which are immunopositive for neuropeptide Y.
(18) Varicography in patients with recurrent varicose veins frequently demonstrates an intact LSV.
(19) A longitudinal study was carried out at 11 secondary schools (Gymnasium) of the city of Bochum to investigate the early and preclinical stages of developing varicose veins.
(20) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
Varicosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being varicose.
(n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(2) Venous valves do not play a role in pathogenesis of primary varicose veins.
(3) Fluorescent nerve fibers with axonal varicosities were distributed on the wall of the preretinal blood vessels in the fluorescence histochemical study.
(4) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(5) Results of the complex clinical and phlebographic examination of 106 patients with the varicose disease were studied.
(6) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
(7) The prevalence of varicose veins of the lower limbs and their risk factors were investigated in the group of 696 women working at a large department store.
(8) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(9) After a phlebitic occlusion of the right superficial femoral and external iliac veins he had been operated on twice for varicose veins.
(10) 96 patients were treated in two years by Ambulatory and Hemodynamic Treatment of Varicose Veins (CHIVA cure), representing 131 legs that underwent surgery.
(11) Axons of these small neurons probably have varicosities located on the CDC axons in the neuropil of the cerebral ganglion, indicating synaptic contacts.
(12) The diffuse junctions, spreading out extensively over the muscle fiber surface, were characterized by two types of varicose swellings (or terminal varicosities) of nerve endings.
(13) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(14) Random analysis of 5,000 additional epithelial cells in these sections showed no close associations to nerve elements with significant accumulations of neurosecretory vesicles (varicosities).
(15) Simultaneous measurements were made on 47 legs after phlebography (normal: 8; side-arm varicosities: 17; long-saphenous insufficiency: 15; postthrombotic syndrome: 7).
(16) Sites of chemical synaptic interaction between the sensory cells and L7 are located at varicosities along sensory cell processes that overlie the main axons of L7, since these structures have been shown ultrastructurally to contain active zones.
(17) The varicosities contain two types of vesicle: electron-lucent vesicles (mean diameter 50 nm) which are immunopositive for GABA and larger (80 nm) electron-dense vesicles which are immunopositive for neuropeptide Y.
(18) Varicography in patients with recurrent varicose veins frequently demonstrates an intact LSV.
(19) A longitudinal study was carried out at 11 secondary schools (Gymnasium) of the city of Bochum to investigate the early and preclinical stages of developing varicose veins.
(20) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.