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Definition of Dropsy
1. Noun. Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities.
Specialized synonyms: Angioedema, Atrophedema, Giant Hives, Periodic Edema, Quincke's Edema, Lymphedema, Scleredema, Cystoid Macular Edema, Anasarca, Chemosis, Papilledema, Brain Edema, Cerebral Edema
Generic synonyms: Lump, Puffiness, Swelling
Derivative terms: Dropsical, Edematous
Definition of Dropsy
1. n. An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Definition of Dropsy
1. Noun. (pathology) Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dropsy
1. an excessive accumulation of serous fluid [n -SIES] : DROPSIED [adj]
Medical Definition of Dropsy
1.
Origin: OE. Dropsie, dropesie, OF. Idropisie, F. Hydropisie, L. Hydropisis, fr. Gr. Dropsy, fr. Water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dropsy
Literary usage of Dropsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"Epidemic dropsy, War Edema and Wet Beri-Beri.— There are recorded many instances
of the occurrence of epidemics of dropsy during times of food shortage ..."
2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1854)
"ON THE dropsy OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE. By DR. SAMUEL WILSS. It was in the investigation
of dropsy that Bright was first led to his discovery. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"There are patients in whom there is such marked periodicity as tc make it possible
to foretell the day of return of the joint dropsy. One of my cases during ..."
4. The Lancet (1842)
"On a Case of Idiopathic dropsy:—History of the ca»e; danger of trusting to li
réimpressions, and forming a hasty diagnosis ; what was the cause of the ..."
5. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"It is to these that I would apply the simple term dropsy. It has been said—and
said with much truth—that dropsy is rather a symptom of disease, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"In consequence of the connexion of these tissues with other functions than the
secretory, all of their diseases are considered elsewhere, except dropsy, ..."
7. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1915)
"acute and chronic nephritis with fatty degeneration of the proliferated epithelium,
or in the fatty stage of large white kidney. dropsy OF RENAL DISEASE. ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"It has been often proposed to treat dropsy of the ovary upon the same principles
as hydrocele or dropsy of the tunica vaginalis. ..."
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