cirsocele

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See also: cirsocèle

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek a dilated vein + tumour.

Noun

cirsocele (plural cirsoceles)

  1. (medicine) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cirsocele”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)