What's the difference between dropsical and edematous?
Dropsical
Definition:
(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).
Edematous
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Edematose
Example Sentences:
(1) A conclusion is made that it is important to examine the eye fundus periphery and equator in patients with central vitreoretinal edematous fibroplastic syndrome.
(2) It was also recorded that patients with edematous fibroplastic process in the central zone accompanied by vitreoretinal tractions often develop equatorial dystrophies, this being a risk factor of retinal detachment.
(3) This phenomenon is apparently not due solely to fluid in the airspaces because in control studies with fluid added into the airways the glucose utilization did not increase to the degree observed with edematous lungs.
(4) Qualitative assessment of lung HA has previously demonstrated that HA is accumulated in the edematous interstitial alveolar space during the alveolitis phase of bleomycin injury.
(5) On proctoscopic examination, discrete 2- to 5-mm raised plaques are seen adherent ot an edematous, friable mucosa.
(6) After 24 h, the extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles appeared grossly swollen (edematous) and discolored.
(7) We found that PRA, ATII, and aldosterone levels in COPD patients with edema are much higher than those in patients without edema and sodium and water excretion decreased significantly in edematous COPD patients.
(8) In 30 septic, edematous intensive care patients a polyneuropathy occurred during treatment of peritonitis, pancreatitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, or bronchopneumonia; 28 patients developed a complete tetraplegia.
(9) The peritumoral area of low-density seen on CT scans is the real extent of the edematous tumor.
(10) During the cerebritis stage, abscesses in control animals were consistently larger and more edematous than those in immunosuppressed animals and reached their maximum size by Day 8, whereas abscesses in immunocompromised animals reached their maximum size around Day 12.
(11) The histological examination and microangiogram after combined coaxial exposure of CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers revealed triangular avascular or oligovascular zones in the edematous tissue, in which the surviving vessels were narrowed.
(12) RN tended to show homogeneous, eosinophilic necrobiosis, giant cells within palisaded foci, and significant stromal fibrosis; while lesions of SGA showed pale, edematous necrobiosis, an absence of giant cells, and lesser degrees of fibrosis.
(13) In the interstitial area, edematous changes and proliferation of Leydig's cells were observed.
(14) Seven years later, a lymphangiosarcoma developed in her edematous lower extremity.
(15) Edematous right hand with dusky erythematous skin over the dorsum and swelling of the palm with limitation of range of motion were noted on admission.
(16) The results evidence that xerotic balanoposthitis morphologically is characterized by atrophy of the epidermis, vacuolar dystrophy of the basal cells, changed structure of keratohyalin granules, presence of a vast edematous area under the epidermis, absence of elastic fibers, inflammatory cellular infiltrate under the edematous area.
(17) When endothelial cells become sufficiently dysfunctional in response to trauma, the cornea becomes irreversibly edematous and opaque.
(18) Phlegmasia cerulea dolens is a severe form of venous thrombosis presenting as an edematous, painful, purplish-blue lower extremity.
(19) Between 1983 and 1986, tissue from 10 pregnant patients (acquired from nine at cesarean section and from one at appendectomy) demonstrated submesothelial decidua formation in the form of microscopic nodules and diffuse cell arrangements in an edematous stroma.
(20) The study involved 22 individuals with aspirin-produced urticaria-edematous skin lesions.