dropsy

(drop'sl) [G. hydrops."] Hydrops; an exce ive accumulation of clear watery fluid in any of.the ti ues or cavities of the body; variously called, according to its character and location, edema, anasarca, ascites, hydrothorax, hydro pericardium, etc. car'diac d., (i) hydro pericardium; (2) dropsy consequent upon heart disease.' cut a'neo us d., edema, epidem'ic d., a disease which has been observed in epidemic outbreaks in India and Mauritius; it is marked by dropsy, anemia, and a mild fever; the mortality in the observed epidemics varied from 2 to 8 per cent. re'nal d., dropsy consequent upon kidney disease. sleep'ing d., sleeping-sickne , subcuta'neo us d., anasarca, edema, wet d., beriberi. abdomen, ascites, hydro per it one uni, hydrocelia, amnion, hydramnios. brain and membranes, hydrocephalus, hydrencephalus, hydro meninx, hydro cranium, wet-brain, chest, hydrothorax. conjunctiva, chemos is. ear, hydrotis, hydro tympanum, hydro i myringa, hydromyrinx, otohydrops, othydrops. eye, hydro pht halm i a, hydro pht halm us. eyelid, blepharedema. Fallopian tube, hydro salpinx, fingen, dactyl edema. foot, podedema. gall-bladder, hydro oh ole cyst is. general, anasarca, nydroncus, hydros arc a.' heart, hydro pericardium, hydro cardia. joints, hydrarthrosis, kidney, hydronephrosis, nephredema. larynx, edema glottidis. lungs, pneumonedeipa.; ovary, hydroarium, hydrovarium. peripardium, hydro pericardium. peritoneum, hydrpperitoneum, ECScites. scrotum, hydroscheocele. skin, edetna, hydro derma, hygroderma. spermatic cord, hydj-ofcele. spinal cord, hydrorrhachis, hydrom^jeHa. thor^- hydrothorax. toes, dactyl edema. tunica vaginal is, hydrocele, hydrorchis. tympanum, hydro tympanum. ureter, hydro ureter. uterus, hydrometra. uvula, stap hyle dem a, vagina, hydrocolpocele.