Look up: dropsy

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   Dropsy
   Dropsy is an accumulation of serous fluid in the body cavities or tissues. Serum is normally exuded through the walls of the small blood-vessels, part of it being absorbed by the veins and lymphatic vessels and returned to the blood. Dropsy arises when the serum is not absorbed sufficiently or is exuded in abnormal quantities, and is therefore more a symptom of some other disturbance than a disease in itself.
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   Dropsy
   archaic or obsolete terms > Medical: Oedema (fluid retention), often due to heart or kidney disease. Contraction of hydropsy, congestive heart failure edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease. Dropsy would be called congestive heart failure today. Accumulation of fluid around the heart.
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   Dropsy
   a swelling caused by accumulation of abnormally large amounts of fluid. Caused by kidney disease or congestive heart failure. William Withering was the first to describe the use of a foxglove (digitalis) in the treatment of dropsy. A collection of water in the body. An anascara, a species of dropsy, is an extravasation of water lodged in the cells of the membrana adiposa. (Dr. Johnson died of dropsy)
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   Dropsy
   Generalized edema (swelling).
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   Dropsy
   Dropsy: An old term for the swelling of soft tissues due to the accumulation of excess water. In years gone by, a person might have been said to have dropsy. Today one would be more descriptive and specify the cause. Thus, the person might have edema due to congestive heart failure. Edema is often more prominent in the lower legs and feet toward th ...
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   Dropsy
   Drop'sy noun ; plural Dropsies . [ Middle English dropsie , dropesie , Old French idropisie , French hydropisie , Latin hydropisis , from Greek ... dropsy, from ... water. See Water , and confer Hydropsy .] (Medicine) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tiss ...
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   dropsy
   Origin: OE. Dropsie, dropesie, OF. Idropisie, F. Hydropisie, L. Hydropisis, fr. Gr. Dropsy, fr. Water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy. ... <medicine> An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   dropsy
   (drop´se) old term for edema. adj., drop´sical, adj. .
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   Dropsy
   • (n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
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    dropsy
    Old term for generalized edema, most often associated with cardiac failure. [G. hydrps]
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    dropsy
    dropsy: see edema.
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