Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VAR-I-CO-CE'LE, n. [L. varix, a dilated vein, and Gr. {foreign}, a tumor. A bad term, being part Greek and. part Latin Cirsocele is the correct term, and is that which is much the most commonly used.]

In surgery, a varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; or more rarely a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum. Cyc.