varicocele

1. 1.

   dilatation of the veins associated with the spermatic cord in the testes

   Broaderdilatation

Other forms of varicocele

plural

varicoceles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about varicocele

What does varicocele mean?

varicocele means "dilatation of the veins associated with the spermatic cord in the testes".

How many syllables are in varicocele?

varicocele has 5 syllables: va-ri-co-ce-le. The stress falls on "co".

Is varicocele a common word?

varicocele is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.