| 单词 | dropsy |
| 释义 | dropsy (once / 4809 pages) n WORD FAMILY dropsy: dropsical, dropsies+/dropsical: dropsically USAGE EXAMPLESJackson gave the offense a brief reprieve from the dropsies with a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown immediately following Utah’s score. Los Angeles Times(Sep 23, 2016) With goal-line brain freezes seemingly spreading, some coaches are taking action to keep such case of the dropsies from becoming an outbreak. Seattle Times(Sep 20, 2016) When Herbert's father died of dropsy, his mother Ann struggled to provide for her seven children. BBC(Aug 26, 2016) n swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities Syn|Hypo|Hyper edema, hydrops, oedema Quincke's edema, angioedema, atrophedema, giant hives, periodic edema recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs lymphedemaswelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas scleredemaa skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face cystoid macular edemaa specific pattern of swelling in the central retina anasarcageneralized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue chemosisedema of the mucous membrane of the eyeball and eyelid lining papilledemaswelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure brain edema, cerebral edemaswelling of the brain due to the uptake of water in the neuropile and white matter lump, puffiness, swelling an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement |
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