dropsy (redirected from fetal sacs dropsy)

drop·sy  (drps)

n.

Edema. No longer in scientific use.

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[Middle English dropesie, short for idropesie, from Old French ydropisie, from Medieval Latin ydrpisia, from Latin hydrpisis, from Greek hudrpisis, from hudrps, dropsy, a dropsical person : hudro-, water; see hydro- + ps, face; see ok^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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dropsi·cal (-s-kl) adj.

dropsi·cal·ly adv.

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dropsy

Noun

an illness in which watery fluid collects in the body [Middle English ydropesie, from Greek hudōr water]

dropsical adj

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Noun

1.

dropsy - swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities edema, hydrops, oedema angioedema, atrophedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema - recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs lymphedema - swelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas scleredema - a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face cystoid macular edema - a specific pattern of swelling in the central retina puffiness, swelling, lump - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement anasarca - generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue chemosis - edema of the mucous membrane of the eyeball and eyelid lining papilledema - swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure brain edema, cerebral edema - swelling of the brain due to the uptake of water in the neuropile and white matter