Sclerotherapy for esophageal varices. Sclerotherapy for esophageal varices, also called endoscopic sclerotherapy, is a treatment for esophageal bleeding that involves the use of an endoscope and the injection of a sclerosing solution into veins.
Metaphors. This KS2 English quiz will test you on metaphors. A metaphor is a figure of speech. In his poem 'Timothy Winters', the poet Charles Causley describes a boy with 'ears like bombs', 'teeth like splinters' and 'eyes as wide as a football pool'. metaphor explains that a thing or person IS something else, rather than like something else. 1  The cat slipped through the grass like a stealthy tiger. 2  The cat was a stealthy tiger, slipping through the long grass. 3  The cat was as stealthy as a tiger. 4  The cat slipped through the grass as stealthily as a tiger.
  Y2K simple means year 2 thousand. y=year 2=2 k=1000 (kilo), in the metric system k is representative of 1000. for example, 1 Km is equivalent to 1000m. When we a â¦ pproached the year 2000, it was thought by many that many of the world's computers would not have the capability to switch over from 1999 to 2000.