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n. Edema. No longer in scientific use.

n. Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.

n. An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

n. In medicine, a morbid accumulation of watery liquid in any cavity of the body or in the tissues. See edema, anasarca., and ascites.

n. In botany, a disease in succulent plants caused by an excess of water.

n. In fish-culture, a disease of young trout.

n. swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

"I have seen in dropsy, and in some fevers; but it is also observable, that many who have exerted much voluntary effort during their whole lives, have continued active to great age."

lump    swelling    puffiness   

dropsy of the brain    dropsy of the uterus    dropsy of the testicle    dropsy of the peritoneum    dropsy of the pericardium    dropsy of the spine    abdominal dropsy    articular dropsy    amniotic dropsy    hepatic dropsy   

scleredema    lymphedema    giant hives    quincke's edema    atrophedema    periodic edema    angioedema    chemosis    brain edema    cerebral edema   

dropsical    dropsically   

hydrops    hydropsy    hydrothorax    hydrarthrosis    œdema    oedema   

topsy   

dyspepsia    syphilis    pleurisy    appendicitis    rheumatism    hepatitis    catarrh    jaundice    epilepsy    scrofula