| dropsy |
edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease. Dropsy would be called congestive heart failure today. It is an accumulation of fluid around the heart, for a variety of complex reasons, and one treatment is administration of digitalis (foxglove leaves).
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| dropsy |
A medical condition where fluid gathers in parts of the body, causing swelling.
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| dropsy |
An old-fashioned term used to describe fluid collection in the body, often used to account for death
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| dropsical |
obsolete term for generalized accumulation of tissue fluid (edema).
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| dropsy |
An unnatural collection of fluid in any cavity of the body.
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