dropsy

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Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD
{n} a bad watery disease, a watery humor
{i} abnormal collection of fluid in body tissues, edema
short for "dropsical swellings", which are collections of water in the body
Swelling with the presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid, often caused by kidney or heart disease
edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease Dropsy would be called congestive heart failure today It is an accumulation of fluid around the heart, for a variety of complex reasons, and one treatment is administration of digitalis (foxglove leaves)
An old-fashioned term used to describe fluid collection in the body, often used to account for death
edema, congestive heart failure
Abnormal swelling of the body or part of the body due to the build-up of clear watery fluid
A medical condition where fluid gathers in parts of the body, causing swelling
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue
swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue
generalized edema in cellular tissue or in a body cavity
mentioned only in Luke 14: 2 The man afflicted with it was cured by Christ on the Sabbath
abnormal accumulation of fluid in body tissues and cavities An old term for edema, or swelling
tendency to swell up due to diseases such as rheumatic heart disease--edema, an accumulation of fluid in connective tissue, including the skin (dropsical = tendency to dropsy)
abdominal dropsy
outflow and accumulation of serous fluid in the abdominal cavity
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Definition von dropsy im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

dropsi
(Tıp) dropsy
dropsy

    Silbentrennung

    drop·sy

    Türkische aussprache

    dräpsi

    Aussprache

    /ˈdräpsē/ /ˈdrɑːpsiː/

    Etymologie

    [ 'dräp-sE ] (noun.) 13th century. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (hudrōps) ὕδωρ (hudor, “water”).
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