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varicosity

varicosity noun: an enlarged vessel or nerve, particularly a blood vessel.

Noun

varicosity (plural varicosities)

  1. An enlarged vessel or nerve, particularly a blood vessel.
  2. A varicose vein.
  3. The tortuousness, and the degree thereof, of a set of varicose veins.

varicosity meaning in Tamil and Urdu

varicosity in Tamil

நாளப்புடைப்பபு, நாளப்புடைப்புடைமை

Forms of varicosity

pluralvaricosities

Origin of varicosity

Borrowed from Latin varicōsitās, from varicōsus, from varix (“varicose vein”).

Words formed from varicosity

Questions about varicosity

What does varicosity mean?
Varicosity means an enlarged vessel or nerve, particularly a blood vessel.
What is varicosity in Tamil?
Varicosity in Tamil is நாளப்புடைப்பபு, நாளப்புடைப்புடைமை. See Varicosity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is varicosity?
Varicosity is a noun.
What is the plural of varicosity?
The plural of varicosity is varicosities.

Words near varicosity in the dictionary

  1. varicosely
  2. varicoseness
  3. varicoses
  4. varicosis
  5. varicosities
  6. varicosity
  7. varicothrombophlebitis
  8. varicothrombosis
  9. varicotic
  10. varicotomies
  11. varicotomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: varicosity (page history and authors); varicosity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); varicosity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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