DROPSY
\dɹˈɒpsi], \dɹˈɒpsi], \d_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_s_i]\
Definitions of DROPSY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
By Oddity Software
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An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
By Noah Webster.
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Excessive amount of watery fluid accumulated in the intercellular spaces, most commonly present in subcutaneous tissue.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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drop'si, n. an unnatural collection of water in any part of the body.--adjs. DROP'SICAL, DROP'SIED (Shak.), affected with dropsy.--n. DROP'SICALNESS. [Through Fr. from L. hydropisis--Gr. hydr[=o]ps--hyd[=o]r, water.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Robley Dunglison
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[French] A collection of serum in a cavity of the body, particularly in the cavity of the abdomen (Abdominal d., or ascites). D. is designated according to the organ, disease of which produces it (Cardiac d., Hepatic d., Renal d.); or according to the part affected, as D. of the amnion (hydramnion), D. of the brain or head (hydrocephalus). D. of the chest (hydrothorax), D. of the cellular tissue (anasarca), D. of the kidney (hydronephrosis), D. of the uterus (hydrometra). Epidemic d., Acute anemic d., an epidemic disease of India and the Mauritius, occurring among the natives only, and marked by general anasarca, slight fever, and great anemia. Lasts from 3 to 12 weeks. May be fatal from oedema of lungs, hydrothorax, or heart failure.
By Alexander Duane
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Disease in which watery fluid collects in cavities or tissue of body, (fig.) over swollen state. Hence dropsicaly a., dropsically adv. [old French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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