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An abnormally dilated and lengthened vein, artery, or lymph vessel.

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  • "The term varices," he says, "is applied to dilated veins, which occur sometimes in connection with the testes and sometimes in the limbs.
  • The conditions of his death sound like the condition of esophageal varices, which is something that occurs to people who have been lifelong alcoholics or heavy drinkers.
  • In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they remove the mania.
  • It, in fact, converted these cases from arterio-venous aneurisms into pure aneurismal varices.
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