varicosity

IPA: vɝkˈɑsʌti

Examples of "varicosity" in Sentences

Swelling and varicosity may occur slowly over life.
In your case, standing on your feet all day is allowing the blood to pool in your legs, resulting in the varicosity.
Nor is a degree of varicosity in the lower legs of runners unusual; the calf muscles get very hard and force the softer veins toward the surface.
The uterus contained a fetus three or four months old, with the membranes intact, the maternal death being due to the varicosity of the pregnant pudenda, the slight injury being sufficient to produce fatal hemorrhage.
When we consider the varicosity of this organ we can readily believe the possibility of the foregoing facts, and there is little doubt that more precaution in suturing severed portions of the nose would render the operation of nose making a very rare one.
In one popliteal varix, slight varicosity of the superficial veins of the leg was present, but it was not certain that the development of this was not antecedent to the injury, as the patient did not notice it until his attention was drawn to its existence.
When interrogated as to the cause of his enormous saphenous veins, which stood out like huge twisted cords under the skin and were associated with venous varicosity on the leg, he said he presumed they were caused by his constantly compressing the saphenous vein at the hip in giving his exhibitions, which in some large cities were repeated several times a day.