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An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

Same as Dropsy.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

Good against dropsy. -- n.

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.

Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. -- n.

he coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.

Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.

f liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

Dropsical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. Dunglison.

rom effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also edema.]

Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem…

ed her apron wide with nuts so brown. Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. Dryden.

by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

ith a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]