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Oedema

noun
(Written also edema)
1.
Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities.  Synonyms: dropsy, edema, hydrops.



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"Oedema" Quotes from Famous Books



... daily use of alcoholic drinks for several months, in quantities not sufficient to produce intoxication, had so altered the blood, and the renal function, that the urine contained both casts and albumen, and some degree of oedema was observable in the face and extremities. These changes were so marked as to justify a diagnosis of incipient nephritis, or Bright's disease. Yet after totally abstaining from the use of alcoholic drinks ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... heart-disease undermined him rapidly; and the few friends whom he received augured ill from what they remarked. Not that he lost hope himself. Although suffering acutely at intervals from difficulty in breathing, and from the oedema of his lower limbs, which slowly crept upwards, he spoke with the same confidence as always of his future creations that he meditated. His brain was the one organ unattacked. From Dr. Nacquart he inquired every day how soon he might ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton



Words linked to "Oedema" :   scleredema, cystoid macular edema, papilledema, chemosis, brain edema, periodic edema, swelling, Quincke's edema, puffiness, anasarca, dropsy, hydrops, lymphedema, cerebral edema, angioedema, lump, atrophedema, giant hives



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