What's the difference between anasarca and oedema?
Anasarca
Definition:
(n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was subsequently admitted to our hospital because of anasarca on January 31, 1986, and was diagnosed as having aplastic anemia.
(2) Two patients presenting with anasarca were found to have aggressive B-cell lymphoma.
(3) All chicks had anasarca and 15 had mild, generalised, acute degenerative changes in the complexus and pelvic limb muscles.
(4) Observed malformations included, but were not limited to cleft palate,micrognathia, anasarca, cardiovascular malformations, and tial anomalies.
(5) This article describes a case in which PG F-2-alpha was injected into the nuchal cysts of a fetus with cystic hygroma, edema anasarca, and oligohydramnios.
(6) A 33-year-old woman presented with chronic diarrhea, vomiting and anasarca due to systemic lupus erythematosus with protein-losing enteropathy, interstitial cystitis and glomerulonephritis.
(7) One child had anasarca and heart decompensation at birth.
(8) A 46-year-old woman previously diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus presented with severe hypoalbuminemia and anasarca.
(10) Frequent association of congestive heart failure or anasarca with mild to moderate fibrinofibrous pericarditis was noted.
(11) There are numerous genetic diseases influencing reproduction and periparturient care in dogs including such disorders as anasarca, cleft palate, swimmers, congenital heart disease, and the various conditions that cause excessive bleeding.
(12) Eight months previously he had noted the onset of pretibial edema, which had progressed to anasarca.
(13) Four infants had noninfectious intractable diarrhea, vomiting, anasarca, hepatomegaly, hypoglycemia, and malnutrition within the first 3 months of life.
(14) Other macroscopic findings included icterus, anaemia, ascites, hydrothorax, hydropericardium, anasarca, pulmonary oedema, gastro-enterorrhagia and nephrosis.
(15) The patient remained afebrile, normotensive, and without signs of localized infection or anasarca.
(16) Hemodialysis was initiated to control severe anasarca and declining renal function.
(17) The first case presented with bilateral pulmonary cystic involvement associated with oligoamnios and feto-placental anasarca.
(18) We report the neuropathological findings in a series of 38 fetuses and neonates with anasarca of various origin.
(19) Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) occurred in a patient with hemolytic anemia and anasarca.
(20) Other tests eliminated other causes for the anasarca.
Oedema
Definition:
(n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
(2) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(3) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(4) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(5) A side-effect of this procedure is postoperative oedema in varying degrees of severity.
(6) The sluggish flow which results from this vasoconstriction and high venous pressure leads to a haemoconcentration which reduces oedema formation but favours leucocyte and platelet sequestration within the microcirculation.
(7) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
(8) During the incubation of the muscle fibres a transient intracellular oedema was demonstrated by electron microscopy and by determination of the exchangeable water content.
(9) The results demonstrated tumor cells infiltrating the surface meninges and a severe astrocytic reaction associated with oedema in the periventricular and brain stem subpial white matter.
(10) Macroscopic and microscopic pulmonary changes were predominantly those of oedema and emphysema.
(11) A series of 5-oxo-5H-1,3,4-thiadiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidine-6-carboxamides were synthesized and evaluated for antiinflammatory activity in the carrageenin oedema test and in RPAR in the rat.
(12) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(13) In rats, ACTH reduced the oedemas induced by zymosan and lambda carrageenan.
(14) The role of steroid therapy in brain oedema following acute cerebral lesions is still unsolved.
(15) 760 patients suffering from acute pulmonary oedema were treated between 1980 and 1986 at the Institute of Anaesthesiology of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw.
(16) Other pathological processes are usually imaged by their hyperecho-characteristics: brain oedema has an increased reflexion compared to normal brain tissue; all brain tumors are diffusely echogenic, the image allows preliminary grading e.g.
(17) In addition the alcian-blue staining intensity of vocal cord biopsies from patients with Reinke's oedema was compared with thyroid parameters, but a relation was not found.
(18) Ankle oedema disappeared under the combined therapy in three out of four patients who developed this side effect under nifedipine, although one additional patient developed ankle oedema under combination therapy.
(19) The maximum oedema was attained in less than 1 h, and there was, subsequently, a gradual decrease.
(20) Apart from evidence of enhanced lysosomal and peroxisomal fragility, probably secondary to the intracellular oedema, the intracellular organelles investigated in this study were unaffected by the myopathic process.