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Dropsy
Dropsy meaning
Edema, swelling.
Example sentences (5)
Attacks of breathlessness due to dropsy forced him to sleep upright in a chair, and doctors frequently tapped his abdomen to drain excess fluid.
Beri-beri, polyneuritis in birds, epidemic dropsy, scurvy, experimental scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pellagra.
Grieson and Mays, Chronology Olybrius died of dropsy after only seven months of rule.
In January 40 Domitius died of edema (dropsy) at Pyrgi.
On 15 August 1369, Philippa died of an illness similar to dropsy in Windsor Castle at the age of fifty-five.