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
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)