What's the difference between varicose and varix?

Varicose


Definition:

  • (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.

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.

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