hydramniosn.
/hʌɪˈdramnɪəs/ Pathology.
Excessive accumulation of amniotic fluid during pregnancy.
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1838 F. Churchill Outl. Princ. Dis. Females 145 ‘Hydramnios’, or excess of liquor amnii.., is said to result from a general serous diathesis.
1885 W. T. Lusk Sci. & Art Midwifery (ed. 3) xv. 288 The causes of hydramnion are hardly to be found in a single morbid condition.
1906 Practitioner Nov. 655 When hydramnios is present, or there is a multiple pregnancy.
1961 Lancet 30 Sept. 742/2 She came into hospital three times during her eighth pregnancy with..mild hydramnios.
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