(a.) Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
(a.) Of or pertaining to dropsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) These placenta antigens were found in the serum of pregnant women with normal and pathological pregnancies,in the urine of pregnant women, in the amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood, and in the ascites of dropsical infants.
(2) Conservative treatment is sufficient for dropsical forms.
(3) The data obtained on 25 patients with acute epiglottitis treated in 1986-1988 in an ENT department permitted the conclusion that the treatment of the disease should be based on epiglottitis forms which were dropsical (8 patients), infiltrative (7 patients) and abscess--forming (10 patients).
Dropsy
Definition:
(n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The involvement of the neurological system in epidemic dropsy is controversial.
(2) Papillophlebitis, a new ocular manifestation of Argemone mexicana oil toxicity, as also the fluorescein angiographic picture in epidemic dropsy is being reported for the first time in the literature.
(3) It is concluded that dropsy glaucoma is hypersecretory in nature; prostaglandin and histamine release may have significant roles in its pathogenesis.
(4) During an outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Delhi, 233 patients were studied.
(5) Four cases manifesting features characteristic of epidemic dropsy following body massage with contaminated mustard oil are reported.
(6) Four had large amount of hydropericardium, two had pericardial friction sound, and two had hydropericardium accompanied with thorax dropsy as initial presentation.
(7) Accompanying the hepatic encephalopathy were hematemesis, abdominal dropsy, and hyperammonemia, conditions observed in hepatic coma patients.
(8) A rare complication of calculous cholecystitis (calculous that had migrated from the gallbladder and held in a circumscribed peritoneal sac with no fistula between this and the gallbladder) was observed in a woman who had been suffering from dropsy of the gallbladder with calculi for some 13 years.
(9) The game against Hungary was Dropsy's debut and he would go on to win another 16 caps.
(10) Eight cases of severe dropsy of the fetal sacs have been observed in mares.
(11) On the basis of physicochemical and serological tests and electron microscopy, the virus was identified as spring viraemia carp virus and assumed to have a primary role in the acute form of infectious dropsy known so far as a bacterial disease.
(12) While dropsy referred to symptoms easily perceived by the patient as well as the physician, Bright's disease focused mainly on microscopic pathology invisible to the patient.
(13) In hydrocephalus of non-tumorous origin ventriculoscopy makes its possible, as a rule, to determine the origin of the dropsy and its character.
(14) He conceded the winning goal against Argentina and was replaced for France's final group game by Dominique Dropsy.
(15) Thirty-one cases of epidemic dropsy with raised intraocular pressure were studied.
(16) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(17) During two outbreaks of epidemic dropsy, detailed neurological and ocular examinations and electrophysiological studies of peripheral nerves and muscles (motor nerve conduction velocities, sensory nerve latencies and electromyography) and eye (electroretinogram and visually evoked cortical responses) were therefore undertaken.
(18) From carps showing the symptoms of acute infectious dropsy, a virus was isolated for the first time in Hungary.
(19) The data showed that pericardial metastasis is often misdiagnosed if hydropericardium with thorax dropsy appeared initially.
(20) The alkaloid sanguinarine reported to be responsible for several outbreaks of epidemic dropsy in the tropics was examined for its hepatotoxic potential in rats.