Dropsy Synonyms

drŏpsē
Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. edema
  2. oedema
  3. hydrops

Words Related to Dropsy

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Dropsy Sentence Examples

  • He died of dropsy on the 14th of June 1746, at Edinburgh.

  • He shows no inconsiderable knowledge of anatomy in his remarkable description of inflammation and abscess of the mediastinum in his own person, and its diagnosis from common pleuritis as well as from abscess and dropsy of the pericardium.

  • The Chinese immigrants suffer chiefly from fever of a malarial type, from beri-beri, a species of tropical dropsy, and from dysentery.

  • The drug was little used till 1763, when Baron Storck of Vienna introduced it for the treatment of dropsy.

  • A characteristic feature of cancer is the carrying of the epithelial cells (which are the essential element of the growth) to the nearest lymphatic glands, and in cancer of the stomach the secondary implication of the glands may cause the formation of large masses between the stomach and the liver, which may press upon the large veins and give rise to dropsy.

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