(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.
Edema
Definition:
(n.) Same as oedema.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(3) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) On HRCT, sequential changes from early edema to development of emphysema were noted.
(6) The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of HVPC on edema formation in frogs.
(7) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(8) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(9) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
(10) Studies were conducted in isolated, buffer-perfused rat lungs to determine if prostaglandin (PG) E1 attenuated pulmonary edema provoked by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
(11) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(12) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(13) That is cystoid macular edema is associated with incomplete PVD with vitreous contraction.
(14) Cerebral edema is a serious complication of the encephalopathy in fulminant hepatic failure.
(15) Using the middle cerebral artery occlusion model in cats, we evaluated the possible role of the cyclooxygenase pathway in alterations of local cerebral blood flow and the development of cortical edema following prolonged ischemia or recirculation.
(16) Edemas were found in 0.8% and 17% of patients during six-week treatment with moxonidine and clonidine, respectively (P = .001).
(17) To determine if monokines might play a pathogenic role in this model, the present study evaluated the effects of a murine monokine preparation enriched in IL-1 bioactivity on selected events characterizing the early pneumotoxic response to monocrotaline, including pulmonary edema and protein extravasation, pulmonary vascular hyperreactivity, and enhanced lung tissue activity of the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC).
(18) Edema formation was assessed by continuously monitoring the weight of the lung perfused at constant pressure.
(19) The purpose of this study was to determine if aspirin, in doses that elevate plasma salicylate concentrations to values reported in patients with salicylate-induced pulmonary edema, produce pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine, isolated perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation.
(20) In these patients, the duration of chest pain was relatively longer, and the incidences of diabetes mellitus, emergency coronary revascularization and multiple-vessel coronary artery disease were higher than in those without pulmonary edema.