| 单词 | water dropsy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater dropsy water dropsy n. now historical and rare the accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity; = ascites n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > dropsy ascitesa1398 bottle dropsy1562 water dropsy1566 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xci. f. 65, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The Timpany..may be called in Englishe the winde Dropsye, and the other the water Dropsye. 1671 J. Archer Every Man his own Doctor viii. 136 When the waterish humor is collected in the Abdomen it is called Ascites, or the Water Dropsie. 1767 J. Towers Brit. Biogr. III. 61/2 (note) He was troub'ed [sic] vino intercute, with the wine dropsy, and not aqua intercute, with the water dropsy. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 432 Making an artificial opening into the cavity of the abdomen in the case of wind-dropsy, as well as in that of water-dropsy. 1914 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 27 118 Quoting Pelagonius, he [sc. Blundeville] thinks that if water dropsy can occur so can wind dropsy. < as lemmas |
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