ramex

Borrowed from Latin ramex.

ramex

1. (medicine, archaic) A hernia, varicocele, or any scrotal tumor.

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From rāmus (“branch”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.meks/, [ˈräːmɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.meks/, [ˈräːmeks]

rāmex f (genitive rāmicis); third declension

1. (anatomy) The blood vessels of the lungs
2. (pathology) A rupture, hernia, varicocele
3. A staff

Third-declension noun.

• “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)