varicocele
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
varicocele (countable and uncountable, plural varicoceles)
- (medicine, andrology) Varicose veins in the area of the scrotum.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 80:
- He had a way of focusing his whole self's concentration very narrowly, adjusting his legs' spread for the varicoceles and curling one arm over the other […]
Translations[edit]
varicose veins in the area of the scrotum
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From varice + -cele, on the example of Ancient Greek κιρσοκήλη (kirsokḗlē).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
varicocele m (plural varicoceli)
Further reading[edit]
- varicocele in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: va‧ri‧co‧ce‧le
Noun[edit]
varicocele f (plural varicoceles)
- (medicine, andrology) varicocele (varicose veins in the area of the scrotum)
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