Dropsy Definition

drŏpsē
noun
Edema. No longer in scientific use.
American Heritage Medicine

Edema.

Webster's New World

(pathology) Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.

1911 The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy. — "Joseph Addison", Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Noun

Singular:
dropsy
Plural:
dropsies

Origin of Dropsy

  • Middle English dropesie short for idropesie from Old French ydropisie from Medieval Latin ydrōpisia from Latin hydrōpisis from Greek hudrōpiāsis from hudrōps dropsy, a dropsical person hudro- water hydro– ōps face okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English ydropsy, from Old French idropsie, ydropisie, from Latin hydropisis, from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (hudrōps), from ὕδωρ (hudor, “water”).

    From Wiktionary

Dropsy Sentence Examples

  • He died of dropsy on the 14th of June 1746, at Edinburgh.

  • He shows no inconsiderable knowledge of anatomy in his remarkable description of inflammation and abscess of the mediastinum in his own person, and its diagnosis from common pleuritis as well as from abscess and dropsy of the pericardium.

  • The Chinese immigrants suffer chiefly from fever of a malarial type, from beri-beri, a species of tropical dropsy, and from dysentery.

  • The drug was little used till 1763, when Baron Storck of Vienna introduced it for the treatment of dropsy.

  • A characteristic feature of cancer is the carrying of the epithelial cells (which are the essential element of the growth) to the nearest lymphatic glands, and in cancer of the stomach the secondary implication of the glands may cause the formation of large masses between the stomach and the liver, which may press upon the large veins and give rise to dropsy.

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