音節(jié)分段：very close veins; Varicose veins.; 語(yǔ)源; By folk etymology from varicose veins; 注釋：; 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.