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Definition of Edema

1. Noun. Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities.

Definition of Edema

1. n. Same as œdema.

Definition of Edema

1. Noun. (US pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Edema

1. an excessive accumulation of serous fluid [n -MAS or -MATA]

Medical Definition of Edema

1. The presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces of the body, usually applied to demonstrable accumulation of excessive fluid in the subcutaneous tissues. Oedema may be localised, due to venous or lymphatic obstruction or to increased vascular permeability or it may be systemic due to heart failure or renal disease. Collections of oedema fluid are designated according to the site, for example ascites (peritoneal cavity), hydrothorax (pleural cavity) and hydropericardium (pericardial sac). Massive generalised oedema is called anasarca. Origin: Gr. Oide ma = swelling This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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1. 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)
"(c) PULMONARY edema.—edema of the lung is never to be lightly regarded whatever the primary condition which causes it. References to the clinical and ..."

2. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1901)
"edema OF THE LARYNX.* HE SMYTH, MD, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. It is my intention in this paper to refer more particularly to those cases which have either some ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"edema OF THE LUNGS AS A CAUSE OF DEATH * BY MC WINTERNITZ, MD, AND RA LAMBERT, MD (From the Department of Pathology of Yale University School of Medicine, ..."

4. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1917)
"PULMONARY edema (edema of the Lungs) Definition.—An effusion of serous fluid into the air-vesicles and interstitial lung tissue. Pulmonary edema is scarcely ..."

5. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"These may be taken up one by one, and considered in relation to their bearing upon the general problem of edema. 1. Obstruction to Outflow through the ..."

6. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"There would then seem to be a relation between blood chloride and urine chloride and edema, but as already pointed out, with decreased renal excretion NaCl ..."

7. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Malignant edema is an Fig. 8. edema bacilli with flagella. ... Bacillus of malignant edema. Spore formation three-day old agar culture ..."

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