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n. Pathology An excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity.

n. Botany Extended swelling in plant organs caused primarily by an excessive accumulation of water.

n. An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity

n. A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water

n. Same as œdema.

n. In pathology, a puffiness or swelling of parts arising from accumulation of serous fluid in interstices of the areolar tissue: as, edema of the eyelids.

n. A genus of bombycid moths, founded by Walker in 1855, having the palpi pilose, rather long, ascending in the male and porrect in the female, with the third joint lanceolate.

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

"The English word "edema" comes from the Greek word oidema, meaning "a swelling tumor", which is derived from the Greek verb oidein meaning "to swell"."

mucous edema    flying edema    malignant edema    angioneurotic edema    collateral edema   

oedemata    edemata    œdema   

hydrops    dropsy   

Abouhalima    Auriemma    Decima    Fukushima    Hiroshima    Jemima    Lima    Pima    alima    cima   

hemorrhage    hypertension    ulcer    diarrhea    inflammation    constipation    necrosis    tachycardia    ischemia    dizziness