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Dropsy (medicine)


dropsy


Origin: OE. Dropsie, dropesie, OF. Idropisie, F. Hydropisie, L. Hydropisis, fr. Gr. Dropsy, fr. Water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy.

<medicine> An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Source: Websters Dictionary