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very close veinspl.n.Chiefly Southern U.S.（复数名词）【多用于美国南部】- Varicose veins.静脉曲张血管
- By folk etymology from varicose veins 源自 varicose veins的民间词源
注释- A linguistic process called folk etymology is observed frequently in regional U.S. dialects.Folk etymology causes an unfamiliar and difficult word to be replaced with a similar-sounding word or phrase whose meaning happens to coincide in a way that makes sense.In this manner,varicose veins becomes very close veins in the speech of many elderly and rural Southerners. The Latinatevaricose, not a part of their ordinary vocabulary, sounds likevery close, which certainly describes the location of these blood vessels just under the skin. Nurses at the East Alabama Medical Center in Lee County, Alabama, report that folk etymologies for medical terms are extremely common among their patients.一种叫作大众词源学的语言过程，经常出现在美国地区方言中。大众词源使一些不熟悉的和困难的词用一个有相似发音的词或词组代替，后者的意思恰好在某种程度上符合原义。这样，varicose veins 成了在许多年老和乡村的南方人言谈中出现的 very close veins 。 拉丁语的varicose 不属于他们的常用词汇， 听起来象very close, 它当然是描写刚好在皮肤下血管的位置。在阿拉巴马州李县的东阿拉巴马医疗中心的护士报道说：医学术语的大众词汇在她们的病人中极为普遍
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