answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Varicose veins are called dialated veins

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

varicose

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What are dilated veins called?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Elongated superficial dilated veins are called?

Elongated superficial dilated veins, are called Varicose veins.


What is the Enlarged Twisted and Dilated veins?

varicose veins


What condition arises when veins become distended due to backflow of blood through stretched venous valves?

Veins becomes dilated and tortuous. You get the condition called as varicose veins.


What is the medical term meaning painful dilated or varicose veins of the rectum or anus?

Hemorrhoids are dilated or varicose veins of the rectum or anus. They can be painful or painless.


What are the dilated veins that occur in the rectum known as?

Hemorrhoids


What is the medical term meaning Greatly dilated veins in which pressure is elevated and blood flow is stagnant or reversed?

The answer to that is varicose veins.


Difference between esophageal varices and hemorrhoids?

Esophageal varices are extremely dilated sub-mucosal veins in the lower third of the esophagus. Hemorrhoids are groups of veins in the region of the anus.


Which veins are likely to become dilated because of raised portal pressure?

may be those of oesophagus or vulva not quite sure !


Why has a vein come up in your palm and is tender?

Veins come up everywhere in your body. They are normally more visible when the vein has dilated. When your veins dilate your Blood pressure drops and heat loss increases.


What is the medical term meaning swollen veins during pregnancy?

Varicose veins. There is compression of vein going up ward to Heart through Abdomen (Inferior vena cave.) by enlarged Uterus, causing back pressure in veins, making it dilated and tortuas.)


What are bleeding varices?

Bleeding varices are bleeding, dilated (swollen) veins in the esophagus (gullet), or the upper part of the stomach, caused by liver disease.


What is swollen twisted veins that appeared as if they were a herniation?

The term varicose derives from the Latin 'varix', which means twisted. A varicose vein is usually tortuous and dilated.