Definition of Hydropsy. Meaning of Hydropsy. Synonyms of Hydropsy

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Definition of Hydropsy

Hydropsy
Hydropsy Hy"drop`sy, n. Same as Dropsy.

Meaning of Hydropsy from wikipedia

- Edema, also spelled oedema, and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue. Most commonly...
- the soul "moist". He was known as the "weeping philosopher" and died of hydropsy, a swelling due to abnormal ac****ulation of fluid beneath the skin. However...
- on characteristics and anatomic site, including: Most generally Edema (hydropsy, dropsy) Anasarca, a severe and widespread form of edema Ascites, fluid...
- accepted and became a knight of the Garter in 1463. Sforza suffered from hydropsy and gout. In 1462, rumours spread that he was dead and a riot exploded...
- they made me drink when I was a child, in Cadiz (Spain), as a remedy for hydropsy and oppilation, and I think that it might have helped me had I not drunk...
- bathing in them, were touted as cures for diseases such as dyspepsia, hydropsy, diabetes, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney stones, gonorrhea, and various...
- virtues in the cure of tormenting gravels, deadly colicks and desperate hydropsies [..] — Scottish Notes and Queries, (1896) IX, p.159 In his application...
- Bithynia. His last years were marked by illness, first epilepsy and then from hydropsy. He died on a 20 November in the year 842 or, according to different interpretations...
- further north at Anse à la Barque. Hincelin was suffering from severe hydropsy. He was ill and bedridden, thought the English were bluffing and sent only...
- the ʿAbbāsid caliphate, this clearly never transpired, and he died of hydropsy in 383/993. While he wrote in other forms, al-Maʾmūnī's oeuvre is most...