Dropsy.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > excess fluid in tissue > dropsy (14) water sicknessOE Dropsy. dropsyc1290 A morbid condition characterized by the accumulation of watery fluid in the serous cavities or the connective tissue of the body. hydropsyc1380 Dropsy. hyposarca1398 A species of dropsy: = anasarca, n. hydropsc1480 Dropsy. water spring1525 Dropsy; oedema. Obsolete. rare. leucophlegmacy1657 ‘A dropsical tendency, denoted by a pale, tumid and flabby condition of body’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). litherness1727 Laziness, sloth, listlessness, indifference; want of spirit, cowardice. Also in physical sense, laxity. hydrothorax1793 A disease characterized by an effusion of serous fluid into one or both of the pleural cavities; dropsy of the chest. hydrometra1811 An accumulation of watery mucous fluid in the cavity of the womb; dropsy of the uterus. humectation1886 Pathology. (See quot. 1886.) Subcategories:— person (2) — fluid (1) |
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