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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ramex.
Noun
ramex
- (medicine, archaic) A hernia, varicocele, or any scrotal tumor.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From rāmus (“branch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rāmex f (genitive rāmicis); third declension
- (anatomy) The blood vessels of the lungs
- (pathology) A rupture, hernia, varicocele
- A staff
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “ramex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ramex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ramix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)