Definitions
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- adj. Belonging to, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Belonging to or affected by anasarca or dropsy; dropsical.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. characterized by or affected by dropsy
Etymologies
Examples
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Both had extensive anasarcous and other effusions, and both had coagulable urine.
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Lane, Bermondsey; was a very corpulent man, and his legs were remarkably thick, probably from an anasarcous complaint.
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Horsefield, in his Diss., states that he administered the infusion in consumptive and anasarcous patients.
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Root and seeds stimulant, carminative, and eminently diuretic; employed with great success in strangury, anasarcous swellings of lower extremities, in suppression of urine, and painful micturition.
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Mr. D----, Æt. 42, a very sensible and judicious surgeon at B----, in Staffordshire, laboured under ascites and very large anasarcous legs, together with indubitable symptoms of diseased viscera.
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It presently reduced the anasarcous swellings, but made no alteration in the distension of the abdomen.
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Ascites and very thick anasarcous legs and thighs, total loss of strength and appetite.
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Phthisis pulmonalis and anasarcous legs and thighs.
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The last month or two her breath worse than usual, her belly swollen, her thighs anasarcous, and her urine in small quantity.
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An ovarium dropsy, and anasarcous legs and thighs.
hernesheir commented on the word anasarcous
dropsical - suffering from dropsy.
November 28, 2010